The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada The Disappearing Mestizo suggests that processes of identification in early colonial Spanish America were fluid and .Much of the scholarship on difference in colonial Spanish America has been based on the "racial" categorizations of indigeneity, Africanness, and the eighteenth-century Mexica
| Title | : | The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.88 (646 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0822356368 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-04 |
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Much of the scholarship on difference in colonial Spanish America has been based on the "racial" categorizations of indigeneity, Africanness, and the eighteenth-century Mexican castas system. Adopting an alternative approach to the question of difference, Joanne Rappaport examines what it meant to be mestizo (of mixed parentage) in the early colonial era. She draws on lively vignettes culled from the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century archives of the New Kingdom of Granada (modern-day Colombia) to show that individuals classified as "mixed" were not members of coherent sociological groups. Rather, they slipped in and out of the mestizo category. Sometimes they were identified as mestizos, sometimes as Indians or Spaniards. In other instances, they identified themselves by attributes such as their status, the language that they spoke, or the place where they lived. The Disappearing Mestizo suggests that processes of identification in early colonial Spanish America were fluid and
Editorial : "Joanne Rappaport has revealed what her historical subjects, labeled as mixed-race, mestizo, or mulatto, knew all along: that their identities, as perceived from the outside, and their self-identities, configured from within, were malleable, negotiated categories. Taking the peripheral Spanish colonial region of the Nuevo Reino de Granada–today's Colombia–as her case study, Rappaport debunks the notion that such definitions were monolithic and empire-wide and shows that reliance on them fails to capture the richness of lived experience that she culls so engagingly from the archives. Through its vividly reconstructed life stories, Rappaport's book successfully combats received ideas about the fixity of racial and ethnic labels that have allowed us to imagine, erroneously, that the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were simpler times than ours."
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