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The Casta paintings of Colonial Mexico : the politics of constructing social order through art
… political contexts of race mixture depicted in Las Castas Mexicanas, a genre of colonial Mexican painting. The first chapter places this genre in historiographical perspective, and provides the conceptual contexts within which this author analyzes the paintings. The second chapter examines the …
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Fermenting Identities: Race and Pulque Politics in Mexico City between 1519 and 1754
<p>The material, symbolic and social forces that colonists and certain indigenous groups selectively reinforced manipulated and reshaped ethnic identity in New Spain. Examining pre-conquest and post-conquest perceptions of the maguey (or American agave) and pulque, the maguey's alcoholic …