Race in Latin America

How do perceptions of race differ in Brazil and the US?
Brown University, 2016

How Race Was Made (podcast) and transcript is here.
Scene on the Radio

Colorism in the Latinx community (video)
Decoded, 2018

Conversations on Colorism (video)
Jarina De Marco, 2019

Teaching the History of Race in Latin America
Perspectives on History, 1997

The roots of European racism lie in the slave trade, colonialism (article)
The Guardian, 2015

Black in Latin America (Interview)
PBS/Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 2011

Las Castas: Spanish Racial Classifications (article)
Native Heritage Project, 2013

Caste And Class Structure In Colonial Spanish America (article)
Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture , 2008

Race, Class, and Gender in the Spanish Colonies (images and text).
Smithsonian Learning Lab, 2016

American Slavery in Comparative Perspective
Gilder Lehrman

How did race affect life in colonial Mexico?
Brown University, 2017





Primary Source: La Castas Painting (de Mexico)
hosted at Annenberg Learner - painter unknown, 1400-1800
Primary Source: From Spaniard and Morisca, Albino Girl
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1763
Primary Source: Collection of Casta Paintings and more here
Southern Methodist University, 1998
Portugal Expands Slavery In Africa -- and begins to describe people by race.
Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea (1450)

Spanish Colonization Overview (Video)
Khan Academy

The Transatlantic Slave Trade Led to the Birth of Racism
Fair Observer, 2020