Latin American Racial Inequality Analysis

Through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were a series of revolutions throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Many of these revolutions held one ideology highest and that was racial equality. Some great examples of these occurrences would be the revolution of Tupac Amaru II in the the viceroyalty of Peru, Jose Maria Morelos in New Spain, and Toussant Louveture from the French Haiti colony. As said before, each of these men fought for independence with a real emphasis on racial equality, but through each of these cases, this inequality manifested itself in different ways. For instance, when looking at Haiti it was a massive enslaved african population, with a pathetically small white population holding all the power, while in New Spain most of the racially inequality came from the ability …show more content…
First, Haiti, when looking at this colony it seems like it should always be on the brink of rebellion, since the slaves grossly outnumber the french colonists. But besides this, the French revolution was occurring the same time, giving all sorts of ideals to the africans who are literate, who in turn spread these ideologies through out the different plantations. In the New Spain, this was quite a different sort of oppression. It was extremely common to find people of mixed ancestry through the viceroyalty, but in concurrence with this, mixed peoples could participate in politics. This gave the impression that most were not complete citizens because of the lack of political ability. In Peru many of the issues stem from the maltreatment of the indigenous population with things like the systematic destruction of religions and forced labor through the Mita. As shown through these examples, although equality is the reason for revolution, we can see that their inequality has manifested in different