The shallow, simplistic nature of modern racialism is highlighted by the many-layered racial caste system in colonial Spain. This isn’t to say either mindset is justifiable or rational, but while modern notions of race are the product of lazy generaliz…
The Casta Paintings highlighted the racial taxonomy, or rather the stereotypes that existed in the late 18th and early 19th century in the Spanish colonies. Dr Andrés Arce y Miranda, who were creole attorneys from Puebla, believed that the Casta Paintings only offered negative images of what was happening in the Americas at that time. These negative images were mainly due to societies views (Spaniards) on how races should be kept pure; and secondly that the racial mixtures that resulted, were thought of as “inferior” races. In many cases, the…read more
The memoir of Catalina de Erauso and the Casta paintings both speak to social norms/values of the colonial period in Spain and in Latin America. The Casta paintings depict the status quo of the colonial time when mixed ethnic families were emerging in …
The shallow, simplistic nature of modern racialism is highlighted by the many-layered racial caste system in colonial Spain. This isn’t to say either mindset is justifiable or rational, but while modern notions of race are the product of lazy generaliz…
ON CASTA PAINTINGS To me the most interesting thing about casta paintings is the variety of perspectives and responses of the viewers. As the text suggests, casta paintings were intended to convey a positive and prosperous image of racial mixture, so as to make a difference in a period when the creoles were discriminated against […]
Unlike the colonization of Iceland, where immaculate records of ancestral pedigrees were kept and remain today, the colonization of Latin America resulted in complex ancestry among its people. Relationships among indigenous, European and African people are found throughout the history of Latin America, and played a prominent role in the development of the provacative artistic […]
There are two ways to ensure adventure: be a nun and take up the guise of a man, or be a man and take up the habit of a nun. Much like Joan of Arc, or Mulan, Monja Alferez, a young girl living in 1600 Spain, snuck away from her convent, dressed a boy, and […]
The Casta paintings provide a unique perspective into the mixture of races within the Spanish colonies of Latin America. Commonly presented on a single canvas with 16 individual paintings, The artworks depict the mixture of Spanish colonizers and local…
I found the noun’s article very interesting and extremely accurate to its time. At that era the women customization to men was very popular, if they wanted to be taken serious or been accepted in “manly” activities they had to customize as men. Even tough the reason is a cultural and sexist one. The Alferez […]
