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