Mestizaje is a Spanish term that is acknowledged when the individual is interrelated of mixed descendant and also related to miscegenation. There are a variety of different societal attitudes towards Mestizaje and Miscegenation. Furthermore, scholars who studied racial and gender formations have affirmed that people who embodied multiracial descent disrupt, “the social projects which create and reproduce structures of domination based on essentialist categories of race that have existed since that time or before.”(Casas, pp.16) Thus, by analyzing this assessment this shows that Mestizaje was defined as the population’s cultural mixing. Overall, Mestizaje was used to describe people in Latin America because most of the people spoke Spanish so
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Latin America focused more on people being in alliance with one another, and not having to discriminate someone just because they were a different race. The article called Race in Latin America stated that, “Latin America racism is different from that in the United States, it still operates to create significant disadvantage for indigenous and black people as collective categories” (Wade, pp. 182). In Early America there was still of course racism that occurred even though they want to eradicate the occurrence of racism. The main difference would be that since Colonial Latin America and Early America are in two different segments which would result in different population size, gender, race, and ethnicity. For example, Latin America ranges in a variety of cultural groups which consisted of Mestizaje and some areas had more African Americans and in certain areas had a larger number of European …show more content…
For instance, in the article called Slavery, race, and ideology in the United States stated that Americans regard people of known African descent or visible African appearance as a race, but not people of known European descent or visible European appearance” (Fields, pp. 97). However, in Latin American the blacks were characterized differently because they would be described as the word Pardo. According to the article entitled Race in Latin America emphasized that, “Pardo indicating some kind of mixedness” (Wade, pp. 182). Since Pardo would be known as brown so that concludes why Africans were labeled as Pardo because some of the individuals had a mixing descendent of black with another type of race. But the majority were brown instead of white due to the struggles that they had faced during that time in Latin
Latin America focused more on people being in alliance with one another, and not having to discriminate someone just because they were a different race. The article called Race in Latin America stated that, “Latin America racism is different from that in the United States, it still operates to create significant disadvantage for indigenous and black people as collective categories” (Wade, pp. 182). In Early America there was still of course racism that occurred even though they want to eradicate the occurrence of racism. The main difference would be that since Colonial Latin America and Early America are in two different segments which would result in different population size, gender, race, and ethnicity. For example, Latin America ranges in a variety of cultural groups which consisted of Mestizaje and some areas had more African Americans and in certain areas had a larger number of European …show more content…
For instance, in the article called Slavery, race, and ideology in the United States stated that Americans regard people of known African descent or visible African appearance as a race, but not people of known European descent or visible European appearance” (Fields, pp. 97). However, in Latin American the blacks were characterized differently because they would be described as the word Pardo. According to the article entitled Race in Latin America emphasized that, “Pardo indicating some kind of mixedness” (Wade, pp. 182). Since Pardo would be known as brown so that concludes why Africans were labeled as Pardo because some of the individuals had a mixing descendent of black with another type of race. But the majority were brown instead of white due to the struggles that they had faced during that time in Latin