Racism In Latin America
The race concept in Latin America is something that is so predominate and so “natural” in a way that see and understanding it would make it more complex and the information is something that is hard to find, especially in countries that had a high percentage of those of African ancestry, countries like brazil, Peru, and Mexico, etc. make the race idea in Latin America more of a puzzle. The understanding that race is a socially formed isnt what that is completely, but in some countries, they use race as solution to their problems and create subdivisions just to try to separate people into grouping like in brazil, the where the group of men all said that they were negro and when Gates asked more deeply about their skin colors they began to say they were either Cabcola, and Moreno. Which mean they complete are intertwin with their ancestry but it wasn’t
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The Brazilian Gilberto Freyre said in his book, The Masters and The Slaves, “every Brazilian, even light skinned, fair haired one carries about him on his soul, when not on sound and body alike, the shadow or at least the birthmark of the aborigine or the Negro, in our affection…. We almost all of us bear the mark of the influence” (Freyre). Stuart Hall notion of cultural identity and
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The Brazilian Gilberto Freyre said in his book, The Masters and The Slaves, “every Brazilian, even light skinned, fair haired one carries about him on his soul, when not on sound and body alike, the shadow or at least the birthmark of the aborigine or the Negro, in our affection…. We almost all of us bear the mark of the influence” (Freyre). Stuart Hall notion of cultural identity and