Race in Latin America

1. politics and racial inequality :

1.1. Brazilian blacks

1.1.1. blacks were faced with discrimination even after slavery was abolished

1.2. Chinese coolie labor in Cuba and Peru

1.2.1. contracted labor somewhat similar to slavery

1.2.1.1. "free" Chinese coolies coerced in to recontracting and more treated likes slaves

1.3. Chinese in Mexico

1.3.1. Chinese voluntarily immigrated to Mexico

1.3.1.1. became part of the working class but also received anti-Chinese backlash because they were essentially taking away labor from natives

1.4. Japanese Peruvians

1.4.1. anti-Japanese allowed U.S. to take Japanese into U.S concentration camps during WWII.

1.4.1.1. son of Japanese immigrants, the Peruvian president is Japanese Peruvian

1.5. Colombian "blackness"

1.5.1. black support groups fought to see equality and to push the allowance of black politics