I am a current fourth-year transfer student in the Philosophy Department whose academic interests center on justice, oppression, and education. In addition to my academic pursuits, I am a husband and father of four who balances a full-time academic schedule with full-time employment. I plan on Graduate studies with the intention of continued research in Philosophy relating to my current research. I am researching the Spanish conquest of the Americas with an emphasis on questions regarding the Racialization of Western Political Thought emerging from the conquest. I want to look at how intuition and justification of belief led to the dehumanization, Racialization, and colonization of entire peoples, and how these modes of oppression lay the groundwork for modern political and social thought. Through key sixteenth-century philosophic and theological arguments held in Spain by both the crown and the Catholic Church, I aim to build around the idea that Race as a social construct emerged as a prime principle in the genesis of Western socio-political thought.