The Colonial Experience (LAST100 wk 3) [old version]
Channel: UBC Latin American Studies
Date: 2015-08-01

An updated version of this video is now available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ecto00LnKE0

Colonial Latin America was a hotbed of diversity in ways that (for various reasons) colonial Africa, Asia, or even North America were not. And the Spanish state and its imperial bureaucracy were determined to chart and manage this complex demography, while social mores in the colonies themselves made much of even apparently small differences. There is no more vivid illustration of the desire to manage and negotiate difference than the so-called “casta paintings” that enjoyed a vogue in the colonial centres of eighteenth-century New Spain (that is, Mexico) and Peru.

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Video by Jon Beasley-Murray for the University of British Columbia course, LAST100, "Introduction to Latin American Studies."  See https://last100.arts.ubc.ca/syllabus/week-3/.