TY  - BOOK
AU  - Twinam,Ann
TI  - Purchasing Whiteness: Pardos, Mulattos, and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish Indies
SN  - 9780804793209
AV  - F2191 
U1  - 305.800946 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Redwood City
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Racially mixed people -- Spain -- Colonies -- History
KW  - Race discrimination -- Caribbean Area -- History
KW  - Race discrimination -- Spain -- Colonies -- History
KW  - Racially mixed people -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Caribbean Area -- History
KW  - Caribbean Area -- Race relations -- History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Part One. Introductions -- Chapter 1. Conclusions: A Century of Historiography -- Chapter 2. Introductions: Alternative Approaches -- Part Two. Long Time -- Chapter 3. Interstices: Seeking Spaces for Mobility -- Chapter 4. Connections: Genealogical Mathematics -- Part Three. Whitening: Precursor Cases -- Chapter 5. Benchmarks: Commoditizing Whiteness, Cuba and Panama -- Chapter 6. Balances: Weighing the Prices of Full Whiteness -- Chapter 7. Exceptions: The Venezuelan Cluster -- Part Four. The Whitening Gracias Al Sacar: 1795-1814 -- Chapter 8. Opportunities: Whitening, the First Year, 1795‒1796 -- Chapter 9. Dissentions and Discords: 1796-1803 -- Chapter 10. Denouements: 1803‒1806 -- Chapter 11. Recalibrations: The 1806 "Mystery" Consulta -- the 1808 Viaña Consulta -- and the Cortes, 1806‒1810 -- Chapter 12. Evolutions: Vassals to Citizens? -- Part Five. Conclusions -- Chapter 13. Retrospectives: Tidbits, Chunks, and Conclusions -- Appendix A: Archival/Printed References to Whitening Cases -- Appendix B: Dates of Service, Vacancies, and Experience of Fiscals for Peru and New Spain (Mexico) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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