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week 3: the colonial experience

After watching the lecture and reading the articles, I was most inclined to write about Latin Americans’ “anxious identity” as well as the Casta paintings. “Latin America is a place where identity seems to come into focus, but also where identity always threatens to dissolve” This particular phrase from the lecture really stood out toContinue reading “week 3: the colonial experience”

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The Mulattos of Colonial Era New Spain

In his essay, “‘Mulata, hija de negro y india’: Afro-Indigenous Mulatos in Early Colonial Mexico”, Robert C. Schwallar explores the characteristics and evolution of the Afro-Indigenous mulatto population during the Colonial Era of New Spain. The term ‘mulatto’ typically conjures the idea of “an individual born to one African and one European parent” (889). This […]

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