Imagining Identity in New Spain: Race, Lineage, and the Colonial Body in Portraiture and Casta Paintings by Magali M. Carrera

Imagining Identity in New Spain: Race, Lineage, and the Colonial Body in Portraiture and Casta Paintings

Latin American and Latino Art and Culture

Magali M. Carrera

216 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction race informative reflective medium-paced
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Reacting to the rising numbers of mixed-blood (Spanish-Indian-Black African) people in its New Spain colony, the 18th-century Bourbon government of Spain attempted to categorize and control its colonial subjects through increasing social regulatio...

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