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Format: 1 online resource (553 pages)

ISBN: 9780804793209 (e-book)

Additional Edition: Print version: Twinam, Ann, 1946- Purchasing whiteness : pardos, mulattos, and the quest for social mobility in the Spanish Indies. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, c2015 ISBN 9780804750936

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Format: XVII, 534 Seiten , Illustrationen

ISBN: 9780804750929 , 9780804750936

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Conclusions : a century of historiographyIntroductions : 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.

Language: English

Subjects: History

Keywords: Amerika ; Spanien ; Kolonie ; Rassendiskriminierung ; Mulatten ; Geschichte 1600-1814 ; Amerika ; Spanien ; Kolonie ; Rechtsstellung ; Mulatten ; Soziale Mobilität ; Geschichte 1600-1814

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Format: 1 online resource (553 p.)

ISBN: 0-8047-9320-4

Content: The colonization of Spanish America resulted in the mixing of Natives, Europeans, and Africans and the subsequent creation of a casta system that discriminated against them. Members of mixed races could, however, free themselves from such burdensome restrictions through the purchase of a gracias al sacar-a royal exemption that provided the privileges of Whiteness. For more than a century, the whitening gracias al sacar has fascinated historians. Even while the documents remained elusive, scholars continually mentioned the potential to acquire Whiteness as a provocative marker of the historic...

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Front matter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Preface -- , One. Conclusions: -- , Two. Introductions -- , Three. Interstices -- , Four. Connections -- , Five. Benchmarks -- , Six. Balances -- , Seven. Exceptions -- , Eight. Opportunities -- , Nine. Dissentions and Discords: 1796–1803 -- , Ten. Denouements: 1803–1806 -- , Eleven. Recalibrations -- , Twelve. Evolutions -- , Thirteen. Retrospectives -- , Appendix A: Archival/Printed References to Whitening Cases -- , Appendix B: Dates of Service, Vacancies, and Experience of Fiscals for Peru and New Spain (Mexico) -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Index , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8047-5092-0

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780804793209