RACE IN LATIN AMERICA 1920-PRESENT

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1. REVISIONISM

1.1. Diminuition of race as a conflict. As Brazil became a more fully capitalist society it was less characterized by the residues of slavery.

2. ESCAPE HATCH

2.1. Distinguished mulattoes from blacks, it was social mobility (lighter blacks). It was whitening as a solution of Brazil's racial problems as well as economic mobility and integration into class society.

2.2. Racial inequality persistent. It was observed in levels of income, employment, access to education, health care, and housing. After 100 years of the end of slavery, blacks were concentrated in the bottom strata. Race was still a crucial determinant of economic success.

3. STRUCTURALIST VIEW

3.1. Expects the elite's smooth maintenance of racial equality to be no where more efficiently carried out than under the military dictatorship.

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4. BLACK SOUL

4.1. It was a movement over states by youth which identified the interests of blacks in Brazil, the interests of blacks elsewhere, and addressed the issues of racial identity. It grew consideration from everywhere, even the military.

5. MEANING OF RETHINKING RACE IN BRAZIL

5.1. Thinking about racial formation as a process of permanently contested social institutions and permanently conflictual identities.

6. RACIAL FORMATION PROCESS

6.1. States that for democracy to truly take hold, "the racial dimensions of Brazilian life will be questioned and examined by those who must live them out."

7. ASIAN LABOR IN LATIN AMERICA

7.1. After Mexico's and Peru's independence from Spain and the cessation of the Manila Trade international labor migration began with massive waves from China, later joined by the Japanese. Japanese immigrants mostly went to Brazil.

7.2. Peru and Cuba promoted importation of coolies or contract laborers to work on sugar plantations. Known as the yellow trade.

7.2.1. Asians went through economic exploitation, racist discrimination, and cultural suppression.

7.3. Yellow Trade

7.3.1. resemblance to African Slave Trade. 250,000 coolies for 8 year contracts were sent to Cuba and Peru.

7.4. Labor of the Asians in Latin America have not been adequately recognized and fully documented.

7.4.1. Prosperity of Mexico and Peru could not have happened without the sweat of the Chinese

8. REGLAMENTO OF 1860

8.1. obligated coolies to work in a contract for an unspecified amount of time or to leave Cuba. This system resembled slavery. There was no distinction in between the two. Racism helped keep the Chinese captive.

9. WAR OF PACIFIC

9.1. Chilean army invaded and liberated the coolies, they then began wage labor (or the enganche sytem)

10. CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT OF 1882

10.1. Chinese became the first group designated by race barred from entering the country

10.2. The Chinese were also expelled from Mexico and fled to Baja California and some also returned to China

11. CIMARRON MOVEMENT

11.1. It was the development of Black culture. Columbia never had a mass impact of people understanding black culture

11.1.1. Symbols of resistance to oppression and continuity of African traditions. Literal meaning is something domesticated which was applied to runaway slaves

12. LAW 70

12.1. Recognizes black communities as an ethnic group and gives rights to the whole black community

12.1.1. They are no longer invisible as they once were. But blackness is still not mainstream in Columbia as it is in Jamaica or Haiti

13. "FARCE OF ABOLITION"

13.1. May 13th was the 100th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Brazil but it was not universal.

13.2. Many groups organized to draw attention to the racial inequality and discrimination still present.

13.2.1. "100 Years of Lies"

13.2.1.1. "100 Years Without Abolition"

14. UNESCO STUDIES

14.1. Effective theory in dismantling the myth of a non-racist national culture.

14.1.1. Materials

14.1.2. Personel

14.1.3. Services

14.1.4. Duration

14.2. UNESCO Researchers

14.2.1. Thales de Azevedo

14.2.2. Roger Bastide

14.2.3. Marvin Harris

14.2.3.1. Suggested that Brazilian system of racial identification subordinated race to class.

14.2.4. Florestan Fernandes

14.2.4.1. Thought Brazil's racial dilemma is a result of survivals from days of slavery which came into conflict with capitalist development. To him race is a problem whose solution is integration.

14.2.4.2. Recognized the continuing presence and significance of race that others tended to dismiss.

15. RACIAL FORMATION THEORY

15.1. Responds to both ongoing racial inequalities and to the persistance of racial difference

15.1.1. Dependencies

15.1.2. Milestones

15.2. Developed as a response to reductionism. This perspective understands race as a phenomenon whose meaning is contested throughout social life.

16. RACIAL FORMATIONS

16.1. A socially and historically construct which categorizes people and places meanings and identities to people in a given society

16.2. Stems from elites, institutions, the government, religion

17. MANILA TRADE

17.1. Linked China, Japan, and the Philippines to Europe in an exchange of Mexican silver for Oriental goods.

18. INDUSTRIAL RESIDENCY

18.1. Turning from China to India for labor. Contracts in Trinidad, France, Britain, etc.

19. ENGANCHADOR SYSTEM

19.1. In Peru the Enganchador who had been a coolie himself in the past negotiated terms of the squad. He was an independent merchant of trading of goods and people but was responsible for any damages.

20. CHINESE PRODUCTION

20.1. By the 20th century, the Chinese controlled the trade in groceries, dry goods, and general merchandise

21. COLUMBIA

21.1. Columbia had the largest black population in Latin America. Concentartion in poor and underdeveloped areas

22. CONSTITUTION REFORM

22.1. After the Constitution of Columbia had been changed they still denied Blacks any status as an ethnic group. They defined them as peasants but not an ethnic group.

22.1.1. Blacks have given but not received. They helped build the nation through slavery but have still been objects of discrimination.

23. BLACK MOBILIZATION

23.1. This is the removal of the focus of mainstream images of a Columbian mestizo nation and instead "investigating and publicizing black history and the participation in political negotiations."