Slavery, Racial Democracy, Whitening and the Cosmic Race

How did the racial ideologies in Latin America shift between the early colonial period through the early twentieth century?

I   Colonial Era and Slavery

Black-White-Indian

Cuadros de Castas

Slavery

Resistance and Negotiation

II Emancipation

Independence

Royalist Blacks and Racist Liberals

III Racism and Whitening Theories

Export-Oriented Elites

IV The Myth of Racial Democracy

José Martí and Race Blind Equality

Partido Independiente de Color (PIC) and the Myth of Racial Democracy

Persistence of Racial Problems

PIC Demands

V La Raza Cosmica and the Mestizo Dream

José Vasconcelos

ID Terms

Cuadros de casta

Escalera rebellion

Mestizo

Casta

Creole

Pardo

Mulatto

Lamarkianism

Mendellianism

Eugenics

PIC

José Martí

Myth of Racial Democracy

Raza Cosmica

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