Renaissance eugenics
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Colonization, Race, and Breeding: Challenging Misconceptions
Exploring the connection between colonization and new ideas of race and breeding in the Americas, this chapter challenges the falsehood that indigenous people had no control over agriculture or breeding. It delves into how indigenous societies like the Aztecs had their own practices of breeding animals and perfecting nature, while discussing the dehumanizing impact of the invention of race and the application of animal metaphors to describe humans in colonial Latin America.
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