03119nam 22005893u 450 991046050600332120210429195751.00-8047-9320-410.1515/9780804793209(CKB)3710000000337308(EBL)1920278(SSID)ssj0001404783(PQKBManifestationID)12619685(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001404783(PQKBWorkID)11380790(PQKB)11569110(MiAaPQ)EBC1920278(DE-B1597)564506(DE-B1597)9780804793209(OCoLC)1198930816(EXLCZ)99371000000033730820151005d2015|||| u|| |engur|nu---|u||utxtccrPurchasing Whiteness[electronic resource] Pardos, Mulattos, and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish IndiesPalo Alto Stanford University Press20151 online resource (553 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8047-5092-0 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 --IndexThe 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...Racially mixed peopleColoniesHistorySpainRace discriminationHistoryCaribbean AreaRace discriminationColoniesHistorySpainRacially mixed peopleHistoryLegal status, laws, etcCaribbean AreaElectronic books.Racially mixed peopleColoniesHistoryRace discriminationHistoryRace discriminationColoniesHistoryRacially mixed peopleHistoryLegal status, laws, etc305.800946Twinam Ann1031383AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910460506003321Purchasing Whiteness2448737UNINA