Mestizo

Cape Verde is an islandic country located on the west coast of Africa. The Cape Verdean culture is a unique mixture of European and African elements, as it was colonized by Portugal until 1975. National identity is rather fragmented, mainly because of the geographical division of the islands. The northern tend to identify more with the Portuguese colonizers, whereas the southern have a closer cultural affinity with Africa. This can be seen in the different dialect of Creole spoken in the North,…

Diaz was a mestizo (part Indian) by birth and came from humble beginnings. As a young man, he began training for the priesthood, but enlisted in the army when war with the United States broke out and had an illustrious military career. Pedro was also sent to the seminary…

Subsequently, with the influx of African black slaves, another wave of interracial mixture emerged, not only between whites and blacks, but also between blacks and Amerindians. Currently, the major ethnic groups are product of these racial mixtures: mestizo (white and indigenous; 58%) and mulatto (white and black; 14%). Nonetheless, whites of European descent, or criollo, make up 20% of the…

The physician anthropologist, Seth Holmes wrote, Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant farm workers in the united states in 2013 a book that displays the essence of Mexican migrant through an ethnographic sense. This book illustrates the suffering, violence and health problems that indigenous Mexican migrant’s workers faced. In common with what migrant workers dealt with the author also experience problems of his own. He wanted first hand research so he traveled on the bus from Oaxaca, Mexico to…

women is very interesting. If you think about it, if God was the one who gave birth to the world and created all of us isn’t it and appropriate conclusion that possibly God could be a woman? Also, another nontraditional image of God is Jesus as a mestizo. “Virgil Elizondo, claims that being a Jew in Galilee was very much like being a Mexican- American in Texas” (Roots of Wisdom Pg. 195). The Jewish community was not accepted by the Greeks, they were treated like second class citizen.…

art and rich, vibrant cultures, whether it be indigenous or Spanish. The people who inhabit Latin America is cultural diversity at its best. There is a number of original as well as mixed races. This unique variety of races combines Amerindians, mestizos, whites, blacks, mulattos, Spanish etc. into one continent. The culture of the continent is the rich combination of several of the leading cultures of this world. Music, art, food, and dance play a very important part in the lives of the…

England, France, and Spain struggled to gain control of Colonial North America. The settlers from each country came to the New World for different reasons, and with different concepts of governance from their own countries. Because of these differences the colonist’s from different countries had advantages and disadvantages that impacted the destiny of the New World. Settlement location, political affiliations, religious beliefs, and economic strengths all contributed to the English…

Both Craig Womack’s novel “Drowning in Fire” and Gloria Anzaldúa’s semi-autobiographical work “Borderlands” explore the intersection between queer and Indian identities. One specific way that Womack and Anzaldúa focus on these identities is through the tension between native religions and Christianity in the lives of modern natives. Both authors come up with a compelling narrative of what it is like to be native and queer in the face of an institutionalized product of Western conquest like…

Mario Vargas Llosa has been writing on politics since the early 1960s. Early in his career, Llosa believed that true socialism might be a possibility in Latin America, but gradually, he came to the conclusion that the Cuban model would not guarantee intellectual freedom. He was attracted towards Jean Paul Sartre’s ideas of commitment. When he leaned away from leftist ideology, Albert Camus became his ethical model. Camus has rejected totalitarianism as a social system where human beings become…

The country of Honduras announced their independence from the Central American Federation in 1838. Their economy instantly began struggling to develop. It wasn't until Marco Aurelio became president that Honduras began to see improvements. The area in Honduras that benefited the most from this was the Atlantic costal region of Honduras because the people began to grow and export bananas. This use of agriculture allowed the country to begin to expand and develop. The trading led to improved ports…