Examples Of Racism In Mexico

Skin Color

Mexico

If you are black get back. If you are brown, stick around. If you are white, you are alright¬¬ (Gates, 2011). The above statement shows how Mexicans shows racism using the skin color. They feel that the darker a person’s skin, the more difficult it is to get ahead in Mexico. In Mexico, skin color is a major factor when it comes to racism. Many people do not know that Mexican skin color can subject them to racism.

Mexico had sixteen categories of racial mixture, or shades of blackness and brownness (Gates, 2011). These categories were called the Castas. The Castas, or different race combinations, into which the offspring of mixed sexual unions in Mexico were assigned. The casta painting were typically done in sets of 16 images

Although in Mexico, they embraced mestizaje, which is a race mixture or miscegenation, as the foundation of national racial ideologies, instead of segregation based on a belief in racial purity, that does not exclude color-based discrimination (Villarreal,2010). Mexican uses people colors to see if an individual would be accepted, or not. they use the skin color to tell if a person is worthy for certain things and

Colorism is rooted in slavery (Nittle, 2017). Colorism gives a disadvantage to a darker skin individual and give advantages to the light skin individuals. During the time of slavery, the darker skinned slaves and the lighter skinned slaves were treated totally different. The darker skinned slaves were forced to work in harsh conditions such as working in the fields during extremely hot weather and cold weather. The lighter skinned slaves were forced to work in the master’s home and do domestic work which was not as extreme as working outside in the fields like the darker skinned slaves were. Although, these lighter skinned slaves were able to work in the master’s home, it was usually because the Master was related to the slaves in some type of way (Nittle,