Race Ethnicity and Social Structure Week 7

Race, Ethnicity, and Social Structure { Week 7

Rafael Quispe and his Inca Crown. On Evo Morales: “The Aymara have a rule, taqi muyu. It means alternating leadership. In our communities a leader is elected for two years, three at most. They cannot come back again even if they beg us. ”

The Body as a Temple 18 Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body. 19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? 20 For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Between the World and Me” (…) Coates lists Michael Brown alongside other recent victims: Eric Garner, John Crawford, Tamir Rice, Marlene Pinnock. He writes, “You know now, if you did not before, that the police departments of your country have been endowed with the authority to destroy your body. ” And he reminds his son that this destruction is so often unpunished as to be tacitly sanctioned: The destroyers will rarely be held accountable. Mostly they will receive pensions. And destruction is merely the superlative form of a dominion whose prerogatives include friskings, detainings, beatings, and humiliations. He means to confirm what his son suspects: that the shocking stories in the news are not anomalous; that police abuse is just another manifestation of the violence that has afflicted black people in America ever since slavery; that officers who kill are not rogues but, rather, enforcers of a brutal social order. One of the most severe lines in the book is also one of the most frequently quoted: “In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body—it is heritage. ” Four decades ago, a number of black leaders were talking in similarly urgent terms about the threats to the black body. The threats were, in the words of one activist, “cruel, inhuman, and ungodly”: black people faced the prospect not just of physical assault and murder but of “genocide”—the horror of slavery, reborn in a new guise. The activist who said this was Oberia D. Dempsey, a Baptist pastor in Harlem, whose main foe was not the police and the prisons; it was drugs, and the criminal havoc wreaked by dealers and addicts.

Casta - Limpieza de sangre (Spain – Jewish or Muslim) - Post-Conquest period - Degree of acculturation to Hispanic culture (proportion of Spanish blood) - Gente de razón (Hispanics) - Gente sin razón (non-acculturated natives) - Porous; you can even buy it! - How does it relate to economic status? - Whitening

Peninsular Criollo Indio Negro “no te entiendo”

Public vs Private – The house and the street Colonial Lima

Colonial Mexico City

Colonial Market

Central Square, Havana