Racism has a long history beginning with segregation in antiquity and has been used to justify crimes against humanity such as slavery and colonialism. While slavery was abolished in Spain in 1886 and racial segregation laws were repealed in Cuba in 1868, racial discrimination and racist ideologies persist today in violations of basic human dignity and human rights. International treaties have sought to end racism but it remains a global issue.

1. Gabriel Rodríguez

2. RACISM
HISTORY OF RACISM
SLAVERY
RACIAL SEGREGATION
RACIAL DISCRIMINATION
RACISM TODAY

3. Racism is a form of discrimination focused on
biological, real or imagined differences that are
done extensive cultural or religious signs or
indicators. It is an ideology
that appealed to biology to
establish hierarchical
relationships of
inequality between groups.

4. The history of racism begins with segregation
presented in antiquity. Historically, racism has been
used to justify crimes against humanity such as
genocide and various forms of domination of people
like slavery, slavery, colonialism, neo-colonialism and
imperialism. Racism is often also associated with
ethnocentrism, chauvinism and xenophobia.

5. Don Miguel Hidalgo, decrees the December 6,
1810, in the city of Guadalajara, the abolition of
slavery. In Spain was not fully abolished slavery until
7 October 1886 While it was abolished in 1838 on the
mainland, persisted and legally tolerated in the
colonies covered by the pressure of the "National
League" who defended with arguments patriotic to
thecreation of the transitional figure of the board
and itsfinal abolition in 1886.

6. The segregation or racial separation is the
separation of spaces, services and laws for people
based on their ancestry. It was practiced in many
parts of the world until the mid-twentieth century.
In 1868 segregation laws limiting the civil rights of
Afro-Cubans under the old "Indian laws" were
repealed, so until the current legal code in Cuba,
with the abolition of the Statutes of cleaning

7. Is a concept that is usually identified with racism
and embracing, although it is not exactly the same
concepts. While racism is an ideology based on the
superiority of one race or ethnicity over others,
racial discrimination is an act which, although is
usually based on a racist ideology, not always
what is.

8. Racism is now defined at all levels and
international fora as an affront to basic human
dignity and a violation of human rights. A number
of international treaties has attempted to end
racism.