Title The disappearing mestizo : configuring difference in the colonial new kingdom of Granada / Joanne Rappaport

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 352 pages) : maps Contents Mischievous lovers, hidden Moors, and cross-dressers : defining race in the colonial era -- Mestizo networks : did "mestizo" constitute a group? -- Hiding in plain sight : gendering mestizos -- Good blood and Spanish habits : the making of a mestizo cacique -- "Asi lo paresçe por su aspeto' : physiognomy and the construction of difference in colonial Santafé -- The problem of caste Summary Looking at what it meant to be mestizo (of mixed parentage) in early colonial Spanish America, Joanne Rappaport finds fluid identification processes rooted in an epistemology entirely distinct from modern racial discourses Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Mestizaje -- Latin America -- History Mestizos -- Latin America -- History HISTORY / Latin America / South America HISTORY -- Latin America -- General. HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America. Mestizaje. Mestizos. Latin America -- History -- To 1830. Latin America. Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book ISBN 0822376857 130649429X 9780822376859 9781306494298

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