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Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America

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Description for Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America Paperback. Historical investigations into how Iberian settlers, African slaves, Native Americans, and their multiethnic progeny understood their identities in colonial Latin America. Editor(s): Fisher, Andrew; O'Hara, Matthew D. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; HBG; HBLL; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
In colonial Latin America, social identity did not correlate neatly with fixed categories of race and ethnicity. As Imperial Subjects demonstrates, from the early years of Spanish and Portuguese rule, understandings of race and ethnicity were fluid. In this collection, historians offer nuanced interpretations of identity as they investigate how Iberian settlers, African slaves, Native Americans, and their multi-ethnic progeny understood who they were as individuals, as members of various communities, and as imperial subjects. The contributors’ explorations of the relationship between colonial ideologies of difference and the identities historical actors presented span the entire colonial period and beyond: from ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
Latin America Otherwise
Condition
New
Weight
475g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822344209
SKU
V9780822344209
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About Andrew Fisher
Andrew B. Fisher is an Assistant Professor of History at Carleton College. Matthew D. O’Hara is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Reviews for Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America
“The essays . . . offer important insights into the complicated processes of social formation in the colonies. . . . [H]istorians, as well as advanced undergraduate and graduate students, will find much to think about in this provocative work.” - Karen B. Graubart, Catholic Historical Review “This is a pioneering study of the constructions of socio-cultural identities in colonial ... Read more

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