Before Mestizaje: The Frontiers of Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico

ISBN-13: 9781107670815 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 304 str.

Ben Vinson III

Opis

This book deepens our understanding of race and the implications of racial mixture by examining the history of caste in colonial Mexico.

Recenzje

'Before Mestizaje is a major contribution to an increasingly sophisticated literature about racial mixture in colonial Latin America with its critical scrutiny of the 'sistema de castas' and the political, legal, social, and cultural variables that shaped its development.' Susan Deans-Smith, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History

Spis treści

1. Wayward mixture: the problem of race in the colonies; 2. Mestizaje 1.0: the moment mixture had modern meaning; 3. 'Castagenesis' and the moment of castizaje; 4. The jungle of extremes (Castas); 5. Extreme mixture in a theater of numbers; 6. Betrothed: marrying into the extremes; 7. Betrothed: identity's riddle; 8. Betrayed; 9. Colonial bequests; Coda; Appendix A. Core records consulted from the Archivo General de la Nación; Appendix B. Place of origin of the extreme castas in Mexico City's marriage cases, 1605–1783; Appendix C. Extreme caste slave sales, from Mexico City Notarial Archive, seventeeth century; Appendix D. Identity reconsidered: factoring lineage into declarations of casta.