Purchasing whiteness : pardos, mulattos, and the quest for social mobility in the Spanish Indies /
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...
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Bibliographic Details
| Main Author: |
Twinam, Ann, 1946-
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| Corporate Author: |
De Gruyter |
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| Format: | Book
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| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Stanford, CA :
Stanford University Press,
[2020]
Stanford, California :
2015
Stanford, California :
[2015]
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