ANTB18H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Rajendran, Ethnocentrism, Scientific Racism
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Cuba, 1898: rethinking race, nation and empire: 1998 makes the war between cuba and spain in which the us emerged victorious. After the haitian revolution of 1791, cuba replaced and became the world"s largest producer of sugar. About half of the slaves laboured on sugar plantations and under brutal conditions, they continued to speak. African languages and they had minimal contact with the outside world. Although, they were legally free they had numerous constraints on the exercise of that freedom- prohibitions on the consumption of alcohol, bans against marriage to white men and women and restrictions on the use of public space. Cuban intellectual leader, jose marti, professed the equality of all races. He said that there was no such thing as race and that race was only a tool to divide the people. But the colour line in us grew more and more rigid and consequences of crossing line became more brutal.
