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Genealogical fictions : limpieza de sangre, religion, and gender in colonial Mexico /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Martínez, María Elena, 1966-2014
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
Mexico > Race relations.
Racism > Mexico > History.
Social classes > Mexico > History.
Social classes > Religious aspects > Catholic Church.
Table of Contents:
  • The emergence of the Spanish statutes of limpieza de sangre
  • Race, purity, and gender in sixteenth-century Spain
  • Juridical fictions : the certification of purity and the construction of communal memory
  • Nobility and purity in the República de Indios
  • Nobility and purity in the República de Españoles
  • The initial stages and socioreligious roots of the sistema de castas
  • The probanza de limpieza de sangre in colonial and transatlantic space
  • Religion, law, and race : the question of purity in seventeenth-century Mexico
  • Changing contours : limpieza de sangre in the age of reason and reform.