A Taxonomy of Racism from Alvarado to Zimmerman
Thoughts on Hearing About the Jordan Davis Verdict from Guatemala City
Ring, Richard
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/02/26/a-taxonomy-of-racism-from-alvarado-to-zimmerman/
Date Written: 2014-02-26
Publisher: CounterPunch
Year Published: 2014
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX15963
Last week our delegation from School of the Americas Watch made a visit to the Casa de la Memoria, or House of Memory, a new museum here in Guatemala City. What first caught my eye was a poster of early Spanish classifications of racial castes. It is the museum’s answer to the racist notion taught in schools here, that after the Spaniards arrival there was a ”mixing of cultures”, kind of like peanut meets chocolate, or hip-hop meets jazz, to produce something new and beautiful – Guatemalan, or at least Ladino, culture.
