SOC 134 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Indian Removal Act, Contin, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
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Slavery and the invention of whiteness & blackness. Main argument: race is a european invention, forged in the context of. Feudal economy: based on agriculture, production oriented toward subsistence, markets play a limited role, little money in circulation, serfs lived on land but payed a sample of their earnings to lord and kept rest for their own survival. Rise of capitalism: markets central to the organization of the overall economy, production oriented toward profit, producers increasingly separated from the means of production. Colonialism: the practice by which a powerful country takes control of territories outside of its borders and establishes enduring systems of exploitation and domination over indigenous populations. The spanish conquest: colonization of the caribbean islands, most of the central america, half of south. America, and large territories in north america: much cruelty done to indigenous people, but miscegenation encouraged, some terms brazilian use: whites, browns, blacks, yellows, and indigenous people, canela (cinnamon, toastada (toasted, branca (white)
