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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