Purchasing Whiteness : Pardos, Mulattos, and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish Indies

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Twinam, Ann, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multiracial people--Spain--Colonies--History.

Multiracial people.

Race discrimination--History--Caribbean Area.

Race discrimination.

Race discrimination--Spain--Colonies--History.

Multiracial people--History--Legal status, laws, etc--Caribbean Area.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (553 p.)

Place of Publication:

Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The colonization of Spanish America resulted in the mixing of Natives, Europeans, and Africans and the subsequent creation of a casta system that discriminated against them. Members of mixed races could, however, free themselves from such burdensome restrictions through the purchase of a gracias al sacar-a royal exemption that provided the privileges of Whiteness. For more than a century, the whitening gracias al sacar has fascinated historians. Even while the documents remained elusive, scholars continually mentioned the potential to acquire Whiteness as a provocative marker of the historic...

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

One. Conclusions:

Two. Introductions

Three. Interstices

Four. Connections

Five. Benchmarks

Six. Balances

Seven. Exceptions

Eight. Opportunities

Nine. Dissentions and Discords: 1796–1803

Ten. Denouements: 1803–1806

Eleven. Recalibrations

Twelve. Evolutions

Thirteen. Retrospectives

Appendix A: Archival/Printed References to Whitening Cases

Appendix B: Dates of Service, Vacancies, and Experience of Fiscals for Peru and New Spain (Mexico)

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 15. Sep 2020)

ISBN:

9780804793209

0804793204

OCLC:

1198930816