ANTH 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Guero, Casta, Gini Coefficient
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Set up courts and made a decision on which race that person belonged to. South africa has lots of people mixed together. People in same family got defined as different races. Government didn"t allow people of different races to live in some area. Had to carry passports within their country to identify where their homeland was. Organized themselves to question this regime and eventually overthrow it (nelson mandela) Built into all other relationships of the society. Determines how far apart the rich and the poor are. Several indigenous royal families that continued to have privilege. Racial categories (castas) not recognized officially after independence (1820) Derived from three essential archetypes that exist: black, white, native. Defined people"s races based on how mixed they were or weren"t.
