Imperial subjects
Subtitle: race and identity in colonial Latin America
By: Andrew B. Fisher and Matthew D. O'Hara, eds. ; foreword by Irene Silverblatt.
Contributors: Fisher, Andrew B., 1970-; O'Hara, Matthew D. 1970-
Series: Latin America otherwise; Latin America otherwise
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780822344018; 9780822344209
Subjects: Identity (Psychology) -- Latin America -- History; Latin Americans -- Ethnic identity; Latin America -- History -- To 1830
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Aristocracy on the auction block : race, lords, and the perpetuity controversy of sixteenth-century Peru / Jeremy Mumford; title: A market of identities : women, trade, and ethnic labels in colonial Potosí; title: Jane E. Mangan; title: Legally Indian : inquisitorial readings of indigenous identity in New Spain / David Tavarez; title: The many faces of colonialism in two Iberoamerican borderlands : Northern New Spain and the eastern Lowlands of Charcas / Cynthia Radding; title: Humble slaves and loyal vassals : free Africans and their descendents in eighteenth-century Minas Gerais, Brazil / Mariana L. R. Dantas; title: Purchasing whiteness : conversations on the essence of pardo-ness and mulatto-ness at the end of empire / Ann Twinam; title: Patricians and plebeians in late colonial Charcas : identity, representation, and colonialism / Sergio Serulnikov; title: Conjuring identities : race, nativeness, local citizenship, and royal slavery on an imperial frontier (revisiting El Cobre, Cuba) / Maria Elena Díaz; title: Indigenous citizenship : liberalism, political participation, and ethnic identity in post-independence Oaxaca and Yucatán / Karen D. Caplan.