Racism is not a new concept in the Americas, it was laid out in the very foundation of the country. The authors cook, Black and Poole theorize that the origin for Hispanic racism origins is based on the Spanish middle ages concept of “Limpieza de Sangre” in which believe that the basis of a good purity a person is would be based on the purity of his catholic bloodlines. It started at the liberation of the Iberian Peninsula from the Muslim countries. Despite freedom prejudice about the Muslim and Jewish communities could be visibly seen as the isle dictated an edict that they must convert to Christianity or be banished from the isle. This caused any converts in the fifteen hundreds, although this was not viewed as a throw treatment of converts