This reductionism has been presented as an argument in social science but also as a common sense argument. By understanding racism and racist beliefs as the product of specific historical moments in time, there is the possibility that with changes in history, these beliefs will also change. In racialized societies, both political power and economic dominance are simultaneously class structured and ethnically and racially structured. Argentina, Uruguay, Southern Chile and Southern Brazil. Mexico, Guatemala, Andes and Amazon.
Racial distinctions are vague in Latin America.
What is black in one place is white in another. From the beginning of the European conquest, there was a strong process of miscegenation. At the time of the conquest, racial appearance and ancestry were the two fundamental elements for classification. A social and racial hierarchy was easily attainable immediately after the conquest. In the social hierarchy the European whites were on top and the Indian and African were on the bottom.