The Evolution of Mexico's La Casta:Will it ever be dismantled? by Melissa Wayne https://padlet.com/melissawayne/xqqxxc611c0dt3aa A historical compare & contrast timeline of La Casta's in Modern Mexican Society en-us 2022-07-18 17:26:58 UTC 2025-10-30 12:19:25 UTC hello@padlet.com 2017 Mexico study of Colorism evidence of La Casta's racial & socioeconomic inequities remain melissawayne https://padlet.com/melissawayne/xqqxxc611c0dt3aa/wish/2245552694 This survey conducted in Mexico validates the socioeconomic inequities faced by people of color: mestizos, indigenous & afro-latinos, citizens who are denied access to education, healthcare, employment and other resources based on the color of their skin denying them social mobility just as the Colonial days of La Casta]]> 2022-07-18 17:47:14 UTC https://padlet.com/melissawayne/xqqxxc611c0dt3aa/wish/2245552694 The Resilient Caste System melissawayne https://padlet.com/melissawayne/xqqxxc611c0dt3aa/wish/2245561398 La Castas in Mexico remains resilient today. Despite Mexico's racial progress during the 1930s-40s due to labor and economic growth, La Casta's elite systemic practices continued to oppress the predominant mestizo, indigenous & afro-latinos working class. Led towards a significant socioeconomic divide during the 1960s as European descendant business owners partnering with media & marketing that demonstrated wealth are linked to white elitism; Martinez states, "Latin America's racial caste system has been quite resilient. It endured the political transformations brought about by independence and the rapid economic growth experienced during the  period known  as the  Export-led era (1850 – 1945)(7). As Mexico's industry and economics prospered between 1945-1990 under much of European descendant own businesses , Martinez states," Therefore, the racial caste system is not likely to disappear in the foreseeable future(7)

]]> 2022-07-18 18:04:13 UTC https://padlet.com/melissawayne/xqqxxc611c0dt3aa/wish/2245561398 Video of Mexico's Mestizos Casta melissawayne https://padlet.com/melissawayne/xqqxxc611c0dt3aa/wish/2245592002 2022-07-18 19:28:40 UTC https://padlet.com/melissawayne/xqqxxc611c0dt3aa/wish/2245592002 Video history of Mexico's La Casta system melissawayne https://padlet.com/melissawayne/xqqxxc611c0dt3aa/wish/2245597924 2022-07-18 19:45:35 UTC https://padlet.com/melissawayne/xqqxxc611c0dt3aa/wish/2245597924 Afrolatinos in Mexico melissawayne https://padlet.com/melissawayne/xqqxxc611c0dt3aa/wish/2245679965 2022-07-18 23:58:24 UTC https://padlet.com/melissawayne/xqqxxc611c0dt3aa/wish/2245679965 La Casta's erasure of Afro Latinos in Mexican History & Society yesterday & today. melissawayne https://padlet.com/melissawayne/xqqxxc611c0dt3aa/wish/2245682800 2022-07-19 00:03:12 UTC https://padlet.com/melissawayne/xqqxxc611c0dt3aa/wish/2245682800 Mexico's excluded & impoverished Indigenous communities yesterday & today. melissawayne https://padlet.com/melissawayne/xqqxxc611c0dt3aa/wish/2245685460 2022-07-19 00:07:39 UTC https://padlet.com/melissawayne/xqqxxc611c0dt3aa/wish/2245685460 Mexico's Elite Criollo's top of racial & social hierarchy yesterday. melissawayne https://padlet.com/melissawayne/xqqxxc611c0dt3aa/wish/2245731696 2022-07-19 01:02:38 UTC https://padlet.com/melissawayne/xqqxxc611c0dt3aa/wish/2245731696 Today Colorism, Racism & Classism is perpetuated by Mexican media La Casta remains melissawayne https://padlet.com/melissawayne/xqqxxc611c0dt3aa/wish/2245745766 2022-07-19 01:18:55 UTC https://padlet.com/melissawayne/xqqxxc611c0dt3aa/wish/2245745766 Pigmentocracies : Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America by Edward Telles Ch2 melissawayne https://padlet.com/melissawayne/xqqxxc611c0dt3aa/wish/2246354468 Telles's text details Mexico's Casta transformation through the 16th, 17th, 18th, and the Mexican Revolution when Mexico's citizens assume a baseline of identity accepting Mestizajes, becoming a mixture of all races. However, as we move through the centuries, what remains a division that is attributed to class is the indigenous languages that the Castillian Spanish spoken in Mexico is now the dominant language spoken among most of its citizens. To speak an indigenous language is considered "backward" in society. Moving forward into the 19th and 20th centuries, Mexican society may claim to embrace multiculturalism, and to an extent, there is some tolerance, yet the ideologies for embracing indigenous language remain the same. It is "backward" for Mexican students to learn their "other" native tongue. Indigenous people still maintain that their language is considered a "problem" to the advancement of society.
According to Telles, "In 2001, a more comprehensive reform was introduced in Mexico with a new version of Article 2, which proclaimed indigenous peoples' right to their own languages and cultures, as well as to political autonomy. In addition, Article 1 was expanded to penalize the perpetrators of discrimination based on ethnicity,
language, or gender, among other things(47) In addition,while indigenous people of Mexico still face challenges in recogongition of identity,similiar to afro-latinos who have faced erasure in Mexico and Latin American history,indigenous languages face the same issues, "throughout the twentieth century, many indigenous people and their descendants collectively adopted both the Spanish language and a mainstream mestizo identity, leaving behind a population that has continued to speak indigenous languages and transmit its language to the next generation (50). However, in maintaining their native tongue, society frowns upon it.
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