How and with what effect were notions of race and status applied to indigenous peoples in colonial Spanish America? To answer that question, Jackson compares the legal and social distinctions created by Spanish officials to separate the colonizers from the colonized in northwestern Mexico, an area on the periphery of Spain's empire, and in Bolivia, a so-called core region with a large sedentary native population. In both regions Spanish elites imposed on native peoples a hierarchical social order based on skin color, language, dress, residence, and access to land. As fixed as these definitions may have seemed in parish registers, censuses, and tribute records, the actual circumstances of people's lives, whether Indian or mestizo, show that racial classifications were imprecise and subjective. While identity categories had definite importance, particularly for defining who made tribute payments, they were also mutable. Jackson shows that indigenous peoples routinely moved upward to take advantage of opportunities to improve their lives. This book offers students the first new synthesis in over thirty years of what race meant in colonial Spanish America, and it raises important issues about caste, or how and why people knew their relative place in society.

Jackson, Robert H. (Robert Howard)

United States, United States of America

1st ed., Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1999

Albuquerque, Unknown, 1999

First Edition, US, 1999

1St Edition, 1999

Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-143) and index.

Библиогр.: с. 137-143 и в примеч.
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1. The Forging Of Indio Status In Colonial Cochabama -- 2. From Indio To Mestizo: The Passing Of The Colonial Social And Economic Order In The Valle Bajo -- 3. Frontier Indian Policy And The Creation Of Indio Identity -- 4. Indian Resistance And Social Control In Baja California And The Pimeria Alta -- 5. Indio Identity And Status On The Frontier Of Northwestern New Spain. Robert H. Jackson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 123-143) And Index.

Traces the development of Spain's legal attitude towards Indians and people of mixed race

ix, 151 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-143) and index

2023-06-28