Limits of Racial Domination Plebeian Society in Colonial Mexico City, 1660-1720

Name: Limits of Racial Domination Plebeian Society in Colonial Mexico City, 1660-1720
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ISBN: 9780299140441

ISBN-10: 029914044X

ISBN-13: 9780299140441

Edition: 1994

Authors: R. Douglas Cope

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nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; In this distinguished contribution to Latin American colonial history, Douglas Cope draws upon a wide variety of sources-including Inquisition and court cases, notarial records and parish registers-to challenge the traditional view of castas (members of the caste system created by Spanish overlords) as rootless, alienated, and dominated by a desire to improve their racial status.nbsp; On the contrary, the castas, Cope shows, were neither passive nor ruled by feelings of racial inferiority; indeed, they often modified or even rejected elite racial ideology.nbsp; Castas also sought ways to manipulate their social "superiors" through astute use of the legal system.nbsp;…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 4/15/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Figures


Tables


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Race and Class in Colonial Mexico City, 1521-1660



Life among the Urban Poor: Material Culture and Plebeian Society



The Significance and Ambiguities of "Race"



Plebeian Race Relations



Patrons and Plebeians: Labor as a System of Social Control



The Fragility of "Success": Upwardly Mobile Castas in Mexico City



The Riot of 1692


Conclusion


Appendix: List of Casta and Indian Wills


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index