The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada

by Joanne Rappaport

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Much of the scholarship on difference in colonial Spanish America has been based on the "racial" categorizations of indigeneity, Africanness, and the eighteenth-century Mexican castas system. Adopting an alternative approach to the question of difference, Joanne Rappaport examines what it meant to be mestizo (of mixed parentage) in the early colonial era. She draws on lively vignettes culled from the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century archives of...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822356368

ISBN13:9780822356363

Release Date:April 2014

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:368 Pages

Weight:1.15 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.3" x 9.1"

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