Book ID: CBB519396545

The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada (2014)

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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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Authors & Contributors
Wade, Peter
Gravlee, Clarence C.
Donovan, Joan
Earle, Rebecca
Lemeire, Olivier
Kent, Michael
Concepts
Race
Science and race
Identity
Racism
Spain, colonies
Colonialism
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
Enlightenment
Places
Latin America
South America
Brazil
Americas
Colombia
United States
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