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Maria Elena Martinez's "Genealogical Fictions" is the first
in-depth study of the relationship between the Spanish concept of
"limpieza de sangre" (purity of blood) and colonial Mexico's
"sistema de castas," a hierarchical system of social classification
based primarily on ancestry. Specifically, it explains how this
notion surfaced amid socio-religious tensions in early modern
Spain, and was initially used against Jewish and Muslim converts to
Christianity. It was then transplanted to the Americas, adapted to
colonial conditions, and employed to create and reproduce identity
categories according to descent. Martinez also examines how the
state, church, Inquisition, and other institutions in colonial
Mexico used the notion of purity of blood over time, arguing that
the concept's enduring religious, genealogical, and gendered
meanings and the archival practices it promoted came to shape the
region's patriotic and racial ideologies.
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