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�Explain how social categories, roles, and practices have been maintained or have changed over time. �M. SIO

Skill:�COMPLEXITY? What’s this?

Topic 4.7

Manchu hairstyle

Casta System

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What will we learn:

What we will do:

Analyze a painting, in the Casta style, to understand ‘Complexity’ in the DBQ essay.

Contextualizing the reasons why new social hierarchies were created from 1450 - 1750

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POINT 0-1: Thesis

  • Organizes the essay
  • 1-2 sentences
  • Can’t restate the prompt
  • Must have SFI (Specific Factual Information)
  • Must directly answer/respond to the prompt

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POINT 0-1: Context

LEQ

Essay

(intro paragraph)

DBQ

Essay

(intro paragraph)

It’s the same as the LEQ

It’s the same as the DBQ

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POINTS 0-3: Evidence

1 Point

Use content of at least 3 documents

  • 2 Point

Use content of at least 6 documents

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POINT 0-1: Beyond the Docs

Write about evidence that is related to the prompt by going ‘beyond, or outside, the documents you recieved.

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POINT 0-2: Reason & Analysis

‘The Sourcing points’�‘HIPP’

Historical situation �Intended Audience�Purpose�POV

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3 docs =

3 HIPP�(1 per doc)

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POINT 1: Complexity

NEXT SEMESTER

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Let’s Get To Learning Some Content

Contextualization the reasons why new social hierarchies were created from 1450 - 1750

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Overview for the changes of social hierarchies

  • Demographic changes make ‘old’ social pyramids outdated
  • European movement to the Americas
  • Forced migrations (diaspora) from Africa to the Americas
  • Hereditary ownership rules change (New World especially)
  • ‘Race’ or skin color become a defining feature

1450-1750

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CASTA SYSTEM

Casta is a word Spanish/Portuguese meaning “lineage”, “breed” or “race.”

The Spanish developed a caste (class) system based on race, which determined a person’s importance and role in society.

What is it?

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Causes of the Casta System

  • Spanish → legitimize & consolidate power → Americas
  • Division of society is key factor in the colonization
  • In the Americas, mixing → natives, happened instantly (Europeans & African)

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Events of Casta

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  • Ranking based on place of origin & skin color
  • Rank = political & social authority

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Consequences of Casta

  • Became ‘flexible’
  • Protected Europeans
  • RACE becomes & still is a central part of the North/South America society

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Casta paintings generally appear in groups of 16 portraits that trace the complex racial mixing of the people in New Spain.

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An inscription describing the ethnic and racial makeup of the mother, the father, and the child(ren) is usually apparent.

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Let’s Look at a Document

A Painting

A Mulatto Woman with her White Daughter Visited by Negro Women in their House in Martinique, 1775

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Using Evidence: Refute or Support an Argument

What is the argument found in the source?�Although there were clear racial differences in the Americas, groups lived alongside each other.

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What evidence would support this claim?�Even though there was harsh slavery in the Americas, these groups did mingle & coexist.

What evidence would refute this claim?�Records suggest that the Casta system did not exist in this ‘cut-&-dry’ fashion as image suggests; it was likely much harder to know distinctions in real life.

COMPLEXITY POINT