Race in Latin America
by Ronald Carvajal
1. Racial theories that played in revolutionary Mexico
1.1. Modern Mexico is a racial mix
1.1.1. MIxture of several groups. Indian and Spanish miscegenation.
1.1.1.1. Indians
2. Revolution that begun in 1910 was fought with the majority being Indians
2.1. Powerful ideological as well as economic factors favored the development of a more virulent racism in the later 19th century
2.1.1. Brought empathetic change, elimination of racism and the rehabilitation of the Indian were central
2.1.1.1. Rehabilitation of Indians through agricultural labor
3. Postrevolutionary indigenismo, represented yet another non-Indian formulations of the "Indian problem"
4. Indians were culturally oppressed in their colonial situation
5. Rural schools were not only the center of education but also of technological diffusion, agrarian reform, political mobilization, and nationalist propaganda
6. It is said that the essence of the revolution was based upon the vindication of the Indian and of the Indian community
6.1. New regime raised the standard of the 1917 Constitution , incorporated indigenismo into its official ideology.
6.1.1. Isolation of indians almost made them an extinct species
7. Frederick Douglas
7.1. Born a slave in 1818, abolitionist orator and writer.
7.1.1. Haiti's mission to teach the world the danger of slavery and latent powers and capabilities of the black race.