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10%OFFJoanne Rappaport - The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada - 9780822356363 - V9780822356363
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The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada

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Description for The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada Paperback. Looking at what it meant to be mestizo (of mixed parentage) in early colonial Spanish America, Joanne Rappaport finds fluid identification processes rooted in an epistemology entirely distinct from modern racial discourses. Num Pages: 368 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; HBG; HBLL; JFC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 492.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
491g
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822356363
SKU
V9780822356363
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About Joanne Rappaport
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.

Reviews for The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada
"Corrects simplistic ideas about the timelessness of racial categorization, even including previous efforts to historicize the alleged 'hardening' of race designations in the eighteenth century."  
Nicole Von Germeten
Journal of American History
“Rappaport’s revisionist study is deeply engaged with current scholarship and is especially interested in targeting much of the literature on New Spain, where a lion’s ... Read more

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