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Purchasing whiteness : pardos, mulattos, and the quest for social mobility in the Spanish Indies
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- Creator
- Ann Twinam
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2015
- Physical Details
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- xvii, 534 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0804750920, 0804793204, 9780804750936, 9780804793209, 0804750939, 9780804750929
- OCLC
- on1198930816, ocn880237391
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Conclusions : a century of historiography -- Introductions : alternative approaches -- Interstices : seeking spaces for mobility -- Connections : genealogical mathematics -- Benchmarks : commoditizing whiteness, Cuba and Panama -- Balances : weighing the price of whiteness -- Exceptions : the Venezuelan cluster -- Opportunities : whitening, the first year 1795-1796 -- Dissentions and discords, 1796-1803 -- Denouements, 1803-1806 -- Recalibrations : the mystery consulta and the cortes, 1806-1810 -- Evolutions : vassals to citizens? -- Retrospectives : tidbits, chunks, and conclusions
Subjects
- Racially mixed people -- Colonies -- Spain -- History.
- Race discrimination -- Caribbean Area -- History.
- Race discrimination -- Colonies -- Spain -- History.
- Racially mixed people -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Caribbean Area -- History.
- Caribbean Area -- Race relations -- History.
- Spain -- Colonies -- America -- Race relations.