• DOI:10.1080/10609160120093796
Corpus ID: 161154873

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}
}

Bruce A. Castleman

Published 2001

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Colonial Latin American Review

Individuals in colonial Latin American society often deŽ 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 ofŽ cial calidades , the classiŽ cation labels of the well-known sistema… CONTINUE READING

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