Week 19: The Atlantic World IDs
The Social Heirarchy in Early Latin America
Sociedad de castas was basically another caste system, but this one was based upon racial origins. If you were European/ white you were at the top of the caste while anything else fell below like the blacks and the Indians - mixed cultures were the filling between them. Just think of it as a gradient from light to dark and the lighter your skin, the higher you were on the caste system and the darker your skin the lower you were.
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