Race in Latin America
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Latino and Hispanic identities aren’t the same. They’re also not racial groups (video and text).
Vox, 2016

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

Primary Source: La Castas Painting (de Mexico)
hosted at Annenberg Learner - painter unknown, 1400-1800



Primary Source: Collection of Casta Paintings and more here
Southern Methodist University, 1998

Primary Source: From Spaniard and Morisca, Albino Girl
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1763

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

Colorism in the Latinx community (video)
Decoded, 2018

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

Race and Poverty in Latin America: Addressing the Development Needs of African Descendants
UN Chronicle, 2007

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

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

Portugal Expands Slavery In Africa -- and begins to describe people by race.
Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea (1450)

American Slavery in Comparative Perspective
Gilder Lehrman

Conversations on Colorism (video)
Jarina De Marco, 2019


Spanish Colonization Overview (Video)
Khan Academy