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Purchasing Whiteness: Pardos, Mulattos, and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish Indies
Purchasing Whiteness Pardos Mulattos and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish Indies
Author: Ann Twinam
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 privi...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780804750936
ISBN-10: 0804750939
Publication Date: 1/28/2015
Pages: 552
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Publisher: Stanford University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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