Hardcover. No jacket as issued. xiv+352pp. Near fine condition. The four corners of the boards show slight bumps--so do the head and tail of the spine. Page 317-318 has a crease. Very slight tarnishing to the fore-edges. Some light wear to the cover, especially on its rear face. Dimensions: 6.25x9.25x1 inches. Weight: 627 grams. (If you order this from outside the United States, we are likely to request an additional payment to help cover the postage.) Every order includes tracking and is wrapped and robustly packaged with care in Tucson, AZ. ~Mesquite Booksellers.

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Title

The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada

Publisher

Duke University Press

Publication Date

2014

Language

English

ISBN 10

0822356295

ISBN 13

9780822356295

Binding

Hardcover

Condition

Near Fine

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Weight

627 grams

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Much of the scholarship on difference in colonial Spanish America has been based on the "racial" categorizations of indigeneity, Africanness, and the eighteenth-century Mexican castas system. Adopting an alternative approach to the question of difference, Joanne Rappaport examines what it meant to be mestizo (of mixed parentage) in the early colonial era. She draws on lively vignettes culled from the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century archives of the New Kingdom of Granada (modern-day Colombia) to show that individuals classified as "mixed" were not members of coherent sociological groups. Rather, they slipped in and out of the mestizo category. Sometimes they were identified as mestizos, sometimes as Indians or Spaniards. In other instances, they identified themselves by attributes such as their status, the language that they spoke, or the place where they lived. The Disappearing Mestizo suggests that processes of identification in early colonial Spanish America were fluid and rooted in an epistemology entirely distinct from modern racial discourses.

About the Author

Joanne Rappaport is Professor of Anthropology, and Spanish and Portuguese, at Georgetown University. She is the author of Intercultural Utopias: Public Intellectuals, Cultural Experimentation, and Ethnic Dialogue in Colombia and coauthor (with Tom Cummins) of Beyond the Lettered City: Indigenous Literacies in the Andes, both also published by Duke University Press.

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