SOC 0833 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Saint-Domingue, Negroid, Cockroach
Document Summary
Pigmentocracies: the case of haiti and dominican republic. In the faces of its inhabitants the history and legacy of conquest and colonization. Although there are many categories of so-called racial type or classi cation in. Latin america, there are three basic or fundamental racial groups: the offspring of europeans and africans were mulattoes, the offspring of europeans and indians were mestizos, the offspring of africans and indians were known, in spanish, as zambos. The united states, in contrast, had a bipolar system based on race , while. Latin america evolved a continuum based on color . Unlike latin america, the us developed a racial system that became increasingly rigid in the 19th century and recognized no middle ground of racial mixture. You were either categorized as black or white. Because of geography and history, racial lines in dominican society has blurred . As early as 1549 colonial government de ned seven racial types.
