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The disappearing mestizo : configuring difference in the colonial new kingdom of Granada / Joanne Rappaport.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rappaport, Joanne.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mestizos--Latin America--History.
- Mestizos.
- Mestizaje--Latin America--History.
- Mestizaje.
- Latin America--History--To 1830.
- Latin America.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (369 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Looking at what it meant to be mestizo (of mixed parentage) in early colonial Spanish America, Joanne Rappaport finds fluid identification processes rooted in an epistemology entirely distinct from modern racial discourses.
- Contents:
- Mischievous lovers, hidden Moors, and cross-dressers : defining race in the colonial era
- Mestizo networks : did "mestizo" constitute a group?
- Hiding in plain sight : gendering mestizos
- Good blood and Spanish habits : the making of a mestizo cacique
- "Asi lo paresçe por su aspeto' : physiognomy and the construction of difference in colonial Santafé
- The problem of caste.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822376859
- 0822376857
- OCLC:
- 1139401030
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