num_pages: 232
description: Challenges the traditional view of castas (members of the caste system created by Spanish overlords) as alienated and dominated by a desire to improve their status. This text argues that instead, social control by the Spanish rested on patron-client networks.
language: English
title: The Limits of Racial Domination: Plebeian Society in Colonial Mexico City, 1660-1720
titlecomplete: The Limits of Racial Domination: Plebeian Society in Colonial Mexico City, 1660-1720
genres: History, School, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 85
publisher: University of Wisconsin Press