Imagining identity in New Spain : race, lineage, and the colonial body in portraiture and casta paintings / Magali M. Carrera.

Reacting to the rising numbers of mixed-blood (Spanish-Indian-Black African) people in its New Spain colony, the eighteenth-century Bourbon government of Spain attempted to categorize and control its colonial subjects through increasing social regulation of their bodies and the spaces they inhabited...

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Main Author: Carrera, Magali Marie, 1950- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2003.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture.
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