1. Racism Revolution & Indigenismo
1.1. Subjective nature of indian/mestizo status depends on range of perceived characteristics rather than the imutable and innate attributes
1.1.1. Indians are socially defined with race being used as a common but genetically unsound for ethnicity.
1.1.2. Revolutionary Indigenismo was simply the latest in a long line of elite formulations of the "Indian problem", coincided with the social upheaval of the Revolution.
1.1.2.1. Porfirian thinkers were profoundly influenced by social Darwinism,
1.1.2.1.1. Porfirian model of development required dispossession of peasant communities(many of them indian) and the creation of a reliable labor force, urban and rural.
1.1.2.1.2. Both Asian and African Americans were treated with cruel treatment and devalued by Mexico under Porfirian rule.
2. Racial ideas & Social Policy in Brazil
2.1. Abolitionist believed that miscegenation would gradually and inexorably "whiten" and thereby "upgrade" the Brazilian population.
2.1.1. Imiigrants also fitted in with the continuation of the whitening ideology earlier predominant among the abolitionist
2.1.2. The Whitening ideology accepted the mulatto but not the black,it was compromise with racist determinism.
3. French & Haitian Revolution
3.1. Paris decreed full equal rights for all free blacks and mulattoes in French colonies. Outlawed slavery in all French colonies and granted the rights of citizenship to all men regardless of color
3.1.1. Fear of another Haitian Revolution motivated Parliament's crucial votes in abolishing the slave trade to rival foreign markets.
3.1.2. The Haitian revolution was a slave revolt and the American was political
4. Race in Argentina & Cuba
4.1. believed in the suerority of blacks over Indians in the struggle for life.
4.1.1. "colored" races were inferior and not adaptable to "white"civilization.
4.1.2. Introduction into Argentina of the new ideologies of socialism and anarchism as well as of trade unionism .
4.2. Nationalism led to the Native Argentinean and to the resultant depreciation of the immigrant, constructively through the development of nationalist education, destructively through xenophobia.
4.2.1. Figueras, natural selection would lead to the absoption of the blacks by the superior race but was a long term evolution slowed by the persistence of an important nucleus of self-reproducing blacks.
4.2.2. Argentina and Cuba are two countries which after independence, the Creole elite decided to build a predominantly white nation by means of massive European immigration, Argentina succeeded and Cuba failed.