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“Casta Painting and the Characterization of Colonial Mexican Identities” by Natalia Caldas

The second source I chose to write about for this week’s writing assignment is “Casta Painting and the Characterization of Colonial Mexican Identities” by Natalia Caldas of the University of Western Ontario. In the second chapter, which is the one I will be mainly focusing on, Caldas’ focus is mainly on the español character inContinue reading ““Casta Painting and the Characterization of Colonial Mexican Identities” by Natalia Caldas”

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Bartolomé de las Casas: A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE INDIES

The first source I chose to write about is “Bartolomé de las Casas: A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE INDIES”, written in 1542 and published in 1552, but more specifically, the abbreviated version written by Franklin W. Knight and Andrew Hurley. Now although my course is only excerpts of las Casas’ account ofContinue reading “Bartolomé de las Casas: A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE INDIES”

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