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Géneros de Gente in Early Colonial Mexico : Defining Racial Difference by Robert C. Schwaller (2016, Hardcover)

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PublisherUniversity of Oklahoma Press

ISBN-10080615487X

ISBN-139780806154879

eBay Product ID (ePID)11038434076

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Number of Pages308 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameGéneros De Gente in Early Colonial Mexico : Defining Racial Difference

Publication Year2016

SubjectLatin America / Mexico, Ethnic Studies / General, Discrimination & Race Relations, Black Studies (Global), Indigenous Studies, Latin America / Central America

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaSocial Science, History

AuthorRobert C. Schwaller

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1 in

Item Weight21.7 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2016-007549

Reviews"More than a history, Géneros de Gente in Early Colonial Mexico stands as a veritable clarion call summoning historians and laypersons alike to fathom new ways of assessing caste, as well as new ways of envisioning how race came to be configured in the Spain's New World colonies. This book will transform readers' views and assumptions."-- Ben Vinson III , author of Bearing Arms for His Majesty: The Free-Colored Militia in Colonial Mexico, "More than a history, Gneros de Gente in Early Colonial Mexico stands as a veritable clarion call summoning historians and laypersons alike to fathom new ways of assessing caste, as well as new ways of envisioning how race came to be configured in the Spain's New World colonies. This book will transform readers' views and assumptions."-- Ben Vinson III , author of Bearing Arms for His Majesty: The Free-Colored Militia in Colonial Mexico, "More than a history, Géneros de Gente in Early Colonial Mexico stands as a veritable clarion call summoning historians and laypersons alike to fathom new ways of assessing caste, as well as new ways of envisioning how race came to be configured in the Spain's New World colonies. This book will transform readers' views and assumptions."-- Ben Vinson III , author of Bearing Arms for His Majesty: The Free-Colored Militia in Colonial Mexico, "More than a history, Gneros de Gente in Early Colonial Mexico stands as a veritable clarion call summoning historians and laypersons alike to fathom new ways of assessing caste, as well as new ways of envisioning how race came to be configured in the Spain's New World colonies. This book will transform readers' views and assumptions."-- Ben Vinson III , author of Bearing Arms for His Majesty: The Free-Colored Militia in Colonial Mexico

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal305.80097209/031

SynopsisOn December 19, 1554, the members of Tenochtitlan's indigenous cabildo , or city council, petitioned Emperor Charles V of Spain for administrative changes "to save us from any Spaniard, mestizo , black, or mulato afflicting us in the marketplace, on the roads, in the canal, or in our homes." Within thirty years of the conquest, the presence of these groups in New Spain was large enough to threaten the social, economic, and cultural order of the indigenous elite. In G neros de Gente in Early Colonial Mexico , an ambitious rereading of colonial history, Robert C. Schwaller proposes using the Spanish term g neros de gente (types or categories of people) as part of a more nuanced perspective on what these categories of difference meant and how they evolved. His work revises our understanding of racial hierarchy in Mexico, the repercussions of which reach into the present. Schwaller traces the connections between medieval Iberian ideas of difference and the unique societies forged in the Americas. He analyzes the ideological and legal development of g neros de gente into a system that began to resemble modern notions of race. He then examines the lives of early colonial mestizos and mulatos to show how individuals of mixed ancestry experienced the colonial order. By pairing an analysis of legal codes with a social history of mixed-race individuals, his work reveals the disjunction between the establishment of a common colonial language of what would become race and the ability of the colonial Spanish state to enforce such distinctions. Even as the colonial order established a system of governance that entrenched racial differences, colonial subjects continued to mediate their racial identities through social networks, cultural affinities, occupation, and residence. Presenting a more complex picture of the ways difference came to be defined in colonial Mexico, this book exposes important tensions within Spanish colonialism and the developing social order. It affords a significant new view of the development and social experience of race--in early colonial Mexico and afterward., Presenting a more complex picture of the ways difference came to be defined in colonial Mexico, this book exposes important tensions within Spanish colonialism and the developing social order. It affords a significant new view of the development and social experience of race--in early colonial Mexico and afterward., On December 19, 1554, the members of Tenochtitlan's indigenous cabildo , or city council, petitioned Emperor Charles V of Spain for administrative changes "to save us from any Spaniard, mestizo , black, or mulato afflicting us in the marketplace, on the roads, in the canal, or in our homes." Within thirty years of the conquest, the presence of these groups in New Spain was large enough to threaten the social, economic, and cultural order of the indigenous elite. In Géneros de Gente in Early Colonial Mexico , an ambitious rereading of colonial history, Robert C. Schwaller proposes using the Spanish term géneros de gente (types or categories of people) as part of a more nuanced perspective on what these categories of difference meant and how they evolved. His work revises our understanding of racial hierarchy in Mexico, the repercussions of which reach into the present. Schwaller traces the connections between medieval Iberian ideas of difference and the unique societies forged in the Americas. He analyzes the ideological and legal development of géneros de gente into a system that began to resemble modern notions of race. He then examines the lives of early colonial mestizos and mulatos to show how individuals of mixed ancestry experienced the colonial order. By pairing an analysis of legal codes with a social history of mixed-race individuals, his work reveals the disjunction between the establishment of a common colonial language of what would become race and the ability of the colonial Spanish state to enforce such distinctions. Even as the colonial order established a system of governance that entrenched racial differences, colonial subjects continued to mediate their racial identities through social networks, cultural affinities, occupation, and residence. Presenting a more complex picture of the ways difference came to be defined in colonial Mexico, this book exposes important tensions within Spanish colonialism and the developing social order. It affords a significant new view of the development and social experience of race--in early colonial Mexico and afterward.

LC Classification NumberF1392.A1S39 2016