Colonization: Transculturation and Race

1. Colonization: Transculturation and Race Latin American Studies November 3, 2010

2. Do Now: • Story of Malinche • Watch the movie and write down 5 important facts about Malinche

3. Homework Review • Using active reading notes, answer the following questions: • What is transculturation? • What’s an example of it in our culture?

4. Transculturation • Encounter between cultures • Cultural exchange and fusion • What are the “sites” of transculturation in Latin America?

5. Three cultures in contact • Spanish • Indigenous • Africans

6. Slave Trade in the Americas • Slavery became main source of workers in 1600s • Human cargo coming from Western Africa—Portuguese controlled

8. New Caste System • Developed racial breakdown that determined spot in social hierarchy • Determined at birth by baptismal priest • Could not change castes!

9. Caste Painting • Español con India, Mestizo • Mestizo con Española, Castizo • Castiza con Español, Española • Español con Negra, Mulato • Mulato con Española, Morisca • Morisco con Española, Chino • Chino con India, Salta atrás • Salta atras con Mulata, Lobo • Lobo con China, Gíbaro (Jíbaro) • Gíbarocon Mulata, Albarazado • Albarazado con Negra, Cambujo • Cambujo con India, Sambiaga (Zambiaga) • Sambiagocon Loba, Calpamulato • Calpamultocon Cambuja, Tente en el aire • Tente en el aire con Mulata, No te entiendo • No te entiendo con India, Torna atrás

10. Religion • The “spiritual conquest of America” • Early establishment of churches in order to convert the “heathens” • Missionaries into fringes of colonization • Inquisition in late 1500s

11. Fringes of Colonization • Urban vs. rural—how were they treated differently? • Urban areas and mining/sugar areas = core of colony • Rural areas and farming areas = fringes

12. Characteristics of Core vs. Fringe CORE FRINGE

13. Homework • Read pp. 86-89 • Next class meeting will be in the library!