Race in Latin America

1. slave rebellion on Saint-Domingue

1.1. first social revolution in the Americas

1.2. People sought to create a different social and economic structure that would break with the colonial past.

2. Knight’s “Racism, Revolution, and Indigenismo”

2.1. subjective nature of Indian/mestizo status

3. 1880-1930: Theory, Policies, and Popular Reaction

3.1. Figueras and Ortiz Fernandez dealt with race with their own explanation

4. Racial Ideas and Social Policy in Brazil, 1870-1940

4.1. Immigration was looked at intellectually

4.2. Peole understoon people were fleeing places of orignis with no economic stability