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The Disappearing Mestizo - Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada (Paperback)
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The Disappearing Mestizo - Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada (Paperback)
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Much of the scholarship on difference in colonial Spanish America
has been based on the "racial" categorizations of indigeneity,
Africanness, and the eighteenth-century Mexican castas system.
Adopting an alternative approach to the question of difference,
Joanne Rappaport examines what it meant to be mestizo (of mixed
parentage) in the early colonial era. She draws on lively vignettes
culled from the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century archives of the
New Kingdom of Granada (modern-day Colombia) to show that
individuals classified as "mixed" were not members of coherent
sociological groups. Rather, they slipped in and out of the mestizo
category. Sometimes they were identified as mestizos, sometimes as
Indians or Spaniards. In other instances, they identified
themselves by attributes such as their status, the language that
they spoke, or the place where they lived. The Disappearing Mestizo
suggests that processes of identification in early colonial Spanish
America were fluid and rooted in an epistemology entirely distinct
from modern racial discourses.
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