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Purchasing whiteness : pardos, mulattos, and the quest for social mobility in the Spanish Indies /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Twinam, Ann, 1946- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2015]
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.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.