ANT 111 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Historical Particularism, Neoliberalism, Franz Boas
Document Summary
Mass of bureaucrats are supported by a poor peasantry. After 1697, french saint domingue become most profitable colony of new world: pearl of the antilles . Laws needed to govern race/class relations in saint domingue and colonies. Declared that freed slaves had rights nearly the same as french citizens: own land, testify in court, marry freely, own slaves, freed persons had right to endow children with wealth and property. Allowed for the rise of gens de couleur. Did not actually empower them systemic classism/racism still existed: certain policies prevented blacks from wearing the same clothes, keep divide. Stricter racial hierarchy in jamaica than in haiti. Code noir differed from jamaica"s legacy limitation act systemic, legal discrimination of land/marriage to mixed children: in jamaica, race trumped blood laws explicitly prevented legalization of mixed, systemic racism is embedded in laws. Social differentiation based on increasing numbers of people neither black, nor slaves: outnumbered the white population.
