Race In Latin America
by vanessa r
1. Racial Democracy In Brazil
1.1. Brazil is not as a diverse country as many people seem to believe.
1.2. Many of the dark skins individulas from Brazil are in prison. There is also discrimination against light skin Black people and dark skin Black people.
1.3. Brazil have their own unique struggles for civil rights. Black and Brown people are at the bottom of race and social class. But there is a active movement for civil rights by women organizations.
2. UNESCO
2.1. UNESCO sponsored a new idea in race by Racial Democracy in Brazil.
2.2. The revisionisms in Brazil was about racial dynamics and the limitations that they were. While trying to stop race to class.
2.3. Brazil became a more capitalist society and less and the focus was less on their slave holding past.
3. Afro-Mexicans & Indigenous
3.1. From 1500-1800 , the Spaniards brought approximately 200 thousands enslaved Africans to Mexico.
3.2. Right from the start the society was a caste society interical and multicultural.
3.3. The Indigenous Movement was the people fighting againt the government for rights that was led by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation due to the mistrust in the Mexican government.
