Imagining identity in New Spain : race, lineage, and the colonial body in portraiture and casta paintings /

Reacting to the rising numbers of mixed-blood (Spanish-Indian-Black African) people in its New Spain colony, the eighteenth-century Bourbon government of Spain attempted to categorize and control its colonial subjects through increasing social regulation of their bodies and the spaces they inhabited...

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מחבר ראשי: Carrera, Magali Marie, 1950- (Author)
פורמט: Licensed eBooks
שפה:אנגלית
יצא לאור: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2003.
מהדורה:1st ed.
סדרה:Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture.
גישה מקוונת:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7560/712454
תוכן הענינים:
  • Identity by appearance, judgment, and circumstances: race as lineage and calidad
  • The faces and bodies of eighteenth-century metropolitan Mexico: an overview of social context
  • Envisioning the colonial body
  • Regulating and narrating the colonial body
  • From populacho to citizen: the re-vision of the colonial body.