Racial Categorizing
by alissa clingman
1. Slave trade between Asian and Spain
2. racial classification often claimed individuals as a particular race to obtain more resources.
3. classification of an offspring depended on the Fathers race.
4. Particular races were categorized as "upper" or "lower" class.
5. Native communities seen through racial lens
6. "Many Enlightenment thinkers invented race as a tool to explain the differences among peoples"
7. The 19th century changed racial thinking to a racist thinking.
8. Las castas created hierarchy ladder amongst people
9. race and class were intertwined
10. one-drop rule: any person with any trace of sub-Saharan or African ancestry (no matter how small or invisible) cannot be “white.”
11. "governments developed policies to deal with the perceived problems in racial groups."