Purchasing Whiteness [[electronic resource] ] : Pardos, Mulattos, and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish Indies
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Palo Alto, : Stanford University Press, 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (553 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.800946 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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... |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Purchasing Whiteness |
| ISBN: | 0-8047-9320-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910460506003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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