Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Race and class in colonial Mexico City, 1521-1660
  • 2. Life among the urban poor : material culture and plebian society
  • 3. The significance and ambiguities of "race"
  • 4. Plebian race relations
  • 5. Patrons and plebians : labor as a system of social control
  • 6. The fragility of "success" : upwardly mobile castas in Mexico City
  • 7. The riot of 1692.