Purchasing whiteness : pardos, mulattos, and the quest for social mobility in the Spanish Indies /

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"The colonization of Spanish America resulted in the mixing of Natives, Europeans, and Africans and the subsequent creation of a casta system that discriminated against them. Members of mixed races could, however, free themselves from such burdensome restrictions through the purchase of a graci...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Twinam, Ann, 1946- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2015.
Temas:
Racially mixed people > Spain > Colonies > History.
Race discrimination > Caribbean Area > History.
Race discrimination > Spain > Colonies > History.
Racially mixed people > Legal status, laws, etc. > Caribbean Area > History.
Discrimination raciale > Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire.
Discrimination raciale > Espagne > Colonies > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Race discrimination
Race relations
Kolonie
Mulatten
Rassendiskriminierung
Rechtsstellung
Soziale Mobilität
Caribbean Area > Race relations > History.
Caraïbes (Région) > Relations raciales > Histoire.
Caribbean Area
Spain
Amerika
Spanien
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Conclusions : a century of historiography
  • Introductions : alternative approaches
  • Interstices : seeking spaces for mobility
  • Connections : genealogical mathematics
  • Benchmarks : commoditizing whiteness, Cuba and Panama
  • Balances : weighing the price of whiteness
  • Exceptions : the Venezuelan cluster
  • Opportunities : whitening, the first year 1795-1796
  • Dissentions and discords, 1796-1803
  • Denouements, 1803-1806
  • Recalibrations : the mystery consulta and the cortes, 1806-1810
  • Evolutions : vassals to citizens?
  • Retrospectives : tidbits, chunks, and conclusions.

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