Hispanic Caste System
• Sept. 20 - 23, 2013
• Objective: Students will analyze the New
Spain caste system through SOAPStone and
DBQs with written responses that include
citation of textual evidence.
Cycle of Colonization
Explorers
Official
European
Colony!
Warm-Up
• “World Cultures and Geography”
• p. 173 .
1. Identify the major players involved in
New Spain colonialism.
2. Use the diagram to demonstrate the
cycle of colonization in New Spain .
3. Write this cycle in a narrative form.
(Tell the story.)
Hispanic caste system
• A system of hierarchy based on race used to
determine a person’s importance in society.
• A caste system assumes that character and a
person’s value was dependent on birthplace
and ethnic origin.
• http://video.pbs.org/video/1580278231/
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“When Worlds Collide: Origin of the caste system”, pbs video.
(Did not access due to MAP testing.)
What was New Spain?
• A Spanish colony that included
• Parts of southwestern United States
• Mexico
• Central America north of Panama
New Spain
• “World Cultures and Geography”
• p.175.
New Spain Caste System
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Peninsulares - Spain-born whites (Spanish)
Criollos - New Spain-born whites (Spanish)
Mestizos - mixed blood (Spanish-Native)
Mulattos - mixed blood (Spanish-African)
Africans - slaves
Natives
A more detailed caste system
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Mestizo: Spanish father and Native mother
Castizo: Spanish father and Mestizo mother
Espomolo: Spanish mother and Castizo father
Mulatto: Spanish and African
Moor: Spanish and Mulatto
Albino: Spanish father and Moor mother
Throwback: Spanish father and Albino mother
Wolf: Throwback father and Native mother
Zambiago: Wolf father and Native mother
Cambujo: Zambiago father and Native mother
Turn to your seatmate and ask…
1. Do new layers of society happen all at once?
2. How do people know what the new layers
are?
Caste Painting
SOAPStone
Subject
Occasion
Audience
Purpose
Speaker
Tone
Essay
“Social Order in the Spanish New World”
by Maria Elena Martinez
assessment
• How did the Spanish caste system evolve as a
result of European colonization?
works cited
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http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/philosophers/las_casas.html
http://www.zonalatina.com/Zldata55.htm
http://barney.gonzaga.edu/~sbennet3/mead/lessonplans/latinamerica/lacaste.htm
http://www.pbs.org/kcet/when-worlds-collide/pdf/lesson2.pdf
http://k12west.mrdonn.org/ColonialMexico.html#CASTE
http://busyteacher.org/6214-how-to-teach-summary-writing.html