Imperial Subjects

Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America

Autor: Matthew D. O`hara, Andrew B. Fisher

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Oprawa: Twarda

Wydawca: Duke University Press

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In colonial Latin America, social identity did not correlate neatly with fixed categories of race an...

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Autor

Matthew D. O`hara, Andrew B. Fisher

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2009

strony

320

EAN

9780822344018

ISBN

0822344017

Enbook ID

04938895

Wydawca

Duke University Press

Waga

594

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In colonial Latin America, social identity did not correlate neatly with fixed categories of race and ethnicity. As "Imperial Subjects" demonstrates, from the early years of Spanish and Portuguese rule, understandings of race and ethnicity were fluid. In this collection, historians offer nuanced interpretations of identity as they investigate how Iberian settlers, African slaves, Native Americans, and their multi-ethnic progeny understood who they were as individuals, as members of various communities, and as imperial subjects. The contributors' explorations of the relationship between colonial ideologies of difference and the identities historical actors presented span the entire colonial period and even beyond: from early contact to the legacy of colonial identities in the new republics of the nineteenth century. The volume includes essays on the major colonial centres of Mexico, Peru, and Brazil, as well as the Caribbean basin and the imperial borderlands. Whether analyzing cases in which the Inquisition found that the individuals before it were 'legally' Indians and thus exempt from prosecution, or considering late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century petitions for declarations of whiteness entitling the mixed-race recipients to legal and social benefits enjoyed by whites, the book's contributors approach the question of identity by examining interactions between imperial subjects and colonial institutions. Colonial mandates, rulings, and legislation worked in conjunction with the actual exercise and negotiation of power between individual officials and an array of social actors engaged in countless brief interactions. Identities emerged out of the interplay between internalized understandings of self and group association and externalized social norms and categories.

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