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200 10$aPurchasing Whiteness$b[electronic resource] $ePardos, Mulattos, and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish Indies
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327   $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tPreface --$tOne. Conclusions: --$tTwo. Introductions --$tThree. Interstices --$tFour. Connections --$tFive. Benchmarks --$tSix. Balances --$tSeven. Exceptions --$tEight. Opportunities --$tNine. Dissentions and Discords: 1796?1803 --$tTen. Denouements: 1803?1806 --$tEleven. Recalibrations --$tTwelve. Evolutions --$tThirteen. Retrospectives --$tAppendix A: Archival/Printed References to Whitening Cases --$tAppendix B: Dates of Service, Vacancies, and Experience of Fiscals for Peru and New Spain (Mexico) --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex
330   $aThe 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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