Chapter 13
Political Transformations
In the Lands of the Aztecs and the Incas
As the daughter of Mexican immigrants there are many names that I have heard people call each other amongst the many is the word Mestizo, which I understood to be a derogatory name for a person of little or no education and limited social skills. This chapter defines a
This sections describes the elite societies that the Spanish created including the dominance of females in their society. Interesting that woman shared the racial privilege of their husbands but were considered weak and in need of male protection.
Sayer states that because there were very few Spanish women this led to the "creation of new colonial societies in Mexico and Peru - the emergence of a mestizo, or mixed-race, population, initially the product of unions between Spanish men and Indian women."
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