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Autore |
Twinam Ann |
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Titolo |
Purchasing Whiteness [[electronic resource] ] : Pardos, Mulattos, and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish Indies |
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Palo Alto, : Stanford University Press, 2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (553 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Racially mixed people - Colonies - History - Spain |
Race discrimination - History - Caribbean Area |
Race discrimination - Colonies - History - Spain |
Racially mixed people - History - Legal status, laws, etc - Caribbean Area |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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... |
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