Read this article on Spanish racial classifications:
https://nativeheritageproject.com/2013/06/15/las-castas-spanish-racial-classifications/ (Links to an external site.)
Read this article by revolutionary leader Jose Marti on Cuba, written in 1893 during the Cuban revolution:
https://library.brown.edu/create/modernlatinamerica/chapters/chapter-4-cuba/primary-documents-w-accompanying-discussion-questions/documenet-9-my-race-from-patria-1893-jose-marti/ (Links to an external site.)
Read this article on the history of the “one drop rule” in the USA:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jefferson/mixed/onedrop.html (Links to an external site.)
In what ways does the Spanish model recognize interracial marriages whilst retaining a racist hierarchy in which the Spanish were on top and the people of African descent were on the bottom? What status do indigenous people have in the model? In what ways did Jose Marti’s essay on race reject this racism and create the basis for a non-racial independent Cuba? In what ways do both these systems differ from the American one-drop rule?