Race in Latin America
by Stephanie Lopez
1. Mexico Chinese population was subjected to oppression which led to large explosions in 1931
2. The third idigenismo reproduced many of the racist assumptions of the Westernism
2.1. continued to operate within racism
2.2. firmly opposed
3. The mestizo became the ideological symbol of the new regime
4. Indians were left victims of imposed categories due to the conflict between official ideology and sociopolitical
5. Racism Revolution and Indigenismo
5.1. What does Knight mean when he writes about the "subjective nature of Indian/Mestizo status"
5.2. What could we argue that the term "Indian" is meaningless?
5.3. Did the Mexican Revolution of 1910 end this racist view with their use of indigenismo? Why? Why not?
6. Racial ideas and Social Policy in Brazil
6.1. How did Brazilian intellextual look at immigration?
6.2. Why did the discussion on race and miscegnation differ in Brazil than most of the Americas?
7. Race in Argentina and Cuba
7.1. Argentina had succeeded and Cuba had failed
7.2. Intellectuals worked hard to integrate Latin immigrants into a newly created Argentinean culture that was a complex combination of Spanish language
7.3. The little war of 1912 argued that the Creole elite should continue to run the country
7.4. Massive white immigration and prohibition of black immigration was the solution imposed
7.5. Two major concessions were made to non whites: the Constitution of,1901 gave them equality and universal male suffrage
7.6. Characteristics of the superior race (white) were becoming intermarriage
7.7. The Argentinians were becoming a new variety of the European white races
8. Douglass was born as a slave in 1818
8.1. Douglass stated that blacks owe the American and British
8.2. He stated, "Haiti was the original pioneer emancipator of of the 19th Century
8.3. Became the most prominent black men
9. War was a result of not being happy with the way people were being treated
9.1. The Haitian Revolution was the only successful one because they had succeeded in ending not just slavery but French control over the colony
9.1.1. Materials
9.1.2. Personel
9.1.3. Services
9.1.4. Duration
9.2. The U.S French and Haitian war was a result of the people discontent
9.3. They were all the same because they used the power of the masses to gain control
10. Impact of the French and Haitian Revolution
10.1. What Relationship does Davis argue existed between the French Revolution and the Haitian Revolution?
10.1.1. The relationship is the abolition of slavey
10.1.2. The abolition of slavery was embodied in constitution of Haiti
10.2. Setting the path for abolition of slavery in other parts of the world
10.2.1. Revolutionary Wars