ISBN:
0822392100
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0822344017
,
0822344203
,
9780822392101
,
9780822344018
,
9780822344209
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 303 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Latin America otherwise
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Imperial Subjects : Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America
DDC:
305.80098
Keywords:
Latin Americans Ethnic identity
;
Identity (Psychology) History
;
Latin America History To 1830
;
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Abstract:
Historical investigations into how Iberian settlers, African slaves, Native Americans, and their multiethnic progeny understood their identities in colonial Latin America
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Racial Identities and Their Interpreters in Colonial Latin America; 1. Aristocracy on the Auction Block: Race, Lords, and the Perpetuity Controversy of Sixteenth-Century Peru; 2. A Market of Identities: Women, Trade, and Ethnic Labels in Colonial Potosí; 3. Legally Indian: Inquisitorial Readings of Indigenous Identity in New Spain; 4. The Many Faces of Colonialism in Two Iberoamerican Borderlands: Northern New Spain and the Eastern Lowlands of Charcas
Description / Table of Contents:
5. Humble Slaves and Loyal Vassals: Free Africans and Their Descendants in Eighteenth-Century Minas Gerais, Brazil6. Purchasing Whiteness: Conversations on the Essence of Pardo-ness and Mulatto-ness at the End of Empire; 7. Patricians and Plebeians in Late Colonial Charcas: Identity, Representation, and Colonialism; 8. Conjuring Identities: Race, Nativeness, Local Citizenship, and Royal Slavery on an Imperial Frontier (Revisiting El Cobre, Cuba); 9. Indigenous Citizenship: Liberalism, Political Participation, and EthnicIdentity in Post-Independence Oaxaca and Yucatán; Conclusion; Bibliography
Description / Table of Contents:
ContributorsIndex
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-290)and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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