Social Climbers in a Colonial Mexican City: Individual Mobility within the Sistema de Castas in Orizaba, 1777-1791
@article{Castleman2001SocialCI, title={Social Climbers in a Colonial Mexican City: Individual Mobility within the Sistema de Castas in Orizaba, 1777-1791}, author={Bruce A. Castleman}, journal={Colonial Latin American Review}, year={2001}, volume={10}, pages={229 - 249} }
Individuals in colonial Latin American society often de ned themselves according to “race”, according to their degrees of African, European, or Indian ancestry. By the middle of the eighteenth century, these socially constructed categories had become very complex because of the possible permutations over succeeding generations. This situation led the regalist Bourbon state to promulgate a directive establishing eighteen of cial calidades , the classi cation labels of the well-known sistema…
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