Imperial subjects : race and identity in colonial Latin America / Andrew B. Fisher and Matthew D. O'Hara, eds. ; foreword by Irene Silverblatt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fisher, Andrew B., 1970-

O'Hara, Matthew D. (Matthew David), 1970-

Series:

Latin America otherwise

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Identity (Psychology)--Latin America--History.

Identity (Psychology).

Latin Americans--Ethnic identity.

Latin Americans.

History.

Latin America--History--To 1830.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

xiv, 303 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.

Contents:

Aristocracy on the auction block : race, lords, and the perpetuity controversy of sixteenth-century Peru / Jeremy Mumford

A market of identities : women, trade, and ethnic labels in colonial Potosí / Jane E. Mangan

Legally Indian : inquisitorial readings of indigenous identity in New Spain / David Tavárez

The many faces of colonialism in two Iberoamerican borderlands : Northern New Spain and the eastern Lowlands of Charcas / Cynthia Radding

Humble slaves and loyal vassals : free Africans and their descendents in eighteenth-century Minas Gerais, Brazil / Mariana L.R. Dantas

Purchasing whiteness : conversations on the essence of pardo-ness and mulatto-ness at the end of empire / Ann Twinam

Patricians and plebeians in late colonial Charcas : identity, representation, and colonialism / Sergio Serulnikov

Conjuring identities : race, nativeness, local citizenship, and royal slavery on an imperial frontier (revisiting El Cobre, Cuba) / María Elena Díaz

Indigenous citizenship : liberalism, political participation, and ethnic identity in post-independence Oaxaca and Yucatán / Karen D. Caplan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-290) and index.

ISBN:

9780822344018

0822344017

9780822344209

0822344203

OCLC:

276995571