Unit 2
Grades 9-10
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Castas vs. the One-Drop Rule: Two Systems, Two Logics
The United States eventually developed its own system for legally classifying people by race, but it worked on strikingly different logic than the Spanish casta system. Understanding both, side by side, helps explain why racial identity and racial politics look different across…
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