Describe how you think the spanish casta system

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Assignment:

Watch only the first 29 minutes of the documentary, Black in Latin America, The Black Grandma in the Closet: Mexico narrated by Professor Henry Louis Gates and please answer the following questions:

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Questions

1. Discuss a segment of the documentary that you found to be informative/new and/or interesting.

2. Based on the Casta paintings we viewed from this week, select one to describe an how the artist integrated signs, symbols, or markers of difference to distinguish that specific Casta.

3. How did a person's Casta label determine the kind of position (economically and/or politically) they might have in the colony?

4. Describe how you think the Spanish Casta System is visible today in Chicana/o/x, Mexican, or a larger Latinx American experience.

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