Imagining Identity In New Spain
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Imagining Identity In New Spain
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Author : Magali M. Carrera
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-01-01
Imagining Identity In New Spain written by Magali M. Carrera and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with Art categories.
Reacting to the rising numbers of mixed-blood (Spanish-Indian-Black African) people in its New Spain colony, the eighteenth-century Bourbon government of Spain attempted to categorize and control its colonial subjects through increasing social regulation of their bodies and the spaces they inhabited. The discourse of calidad (status) and raza (lineage) on which the regulations were based also found expression in the visual culture of New Spain, particularly in the unique genre of casta paintings, which purported to portray discrete categories of mixed-blood plebeians. Using an interdisciplinary approach that also considers legal, literary, and religious documents of the period, Magali Carrera focuses on eighteenth-century portraiture and casta paintings to understand how the people and spaces of New Spain were conceptualized and visualized. She explains how these visual practices emphasized a seeming realism that constructed colonial bodies—elite and non-elite—as knowable and visible. At the same time, however, she argues that the chaotic specificity of the lives and lived conditions in eighteenth-century New Spain belied the illusion of social orderliness and totality narrated in its visual art. Ultimately, she concludes, the inherent ambiguity of the colonial body and its spaces brought chaos to all dreams of order.
Traveling From New Spain To Mexico
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Author : Magali M. Carrera
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2011-06-03
Traveling From New Spain To Mexico written by Magali M. Carrera and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-03 with Art categories.
How colonial mapping traditions were combined with practices of nineteenth-century visual culture in the first maps of independent Mexico, particularly in those created by the respected cartographer Antonio Garc&ía Cubas.
Imagining Spain
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Author : Henry Kamen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Imagining Spain written by Henry Kamen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Nationalism categories.
'Imagining Spain' is an analysis of the myths that Spaniards have held, and continue to hold, about themselves and about their collective past. The text discusses how perceptions of key aspects of early modern Spain were influenced by ideologies that continue to play a role in the formation of contemporary Spanish attitudes.
An American Color
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Author : Andrew N. Wegmann
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2022-01-15
An American Color written by Andrew N. Wegmann and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-15 with History categories.
For decades, scholars have conceived of the coastal city of New Orleans as a remarkable outlier, an exception to nearly every “rule” of accepted U.S. historiography. A frontier town of the circum-Caribbean, the popular image of New Orleans has remained a vestige of North America’s European colonial era rather than an Atlantic city on the southern coast of the United States. Beginning with the French founding of New Orleans in 1718 and concluding with the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, An American Color seeks to correct this vision. By tracing the impact of racial science, law, and personal reputation and identity through multiple colonial and territorial regimes, it shows how locally born mulâtres in French New Orleans became part of a self-conscious, identifiable community of Creoles of color in the United States. An American Color places this local history in the wider context of the North American continent and the Atlantic world. This book shows that New Orleans and its free population of color did not develop in a cultural, legal, or intellectual vacuum. More than just a study of race and law, this work tells a story of humanity in the Atlantic world, a story of how a people on the French colonial frontier in the mid-eighteenth century became unlikely, accepted parts of a vast political, social, and racial United States without ever leaving home.
Imagining Europe
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Author : Chiara Bottici
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-07-29
Imagining Europe written by Chiara Bottici and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-29 with History categories.
Chiara Bottici and Benoît Challand explore the formative process of a European identity situated between myth and memory.
Casta Painting
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Author : Ilona Katzew
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2005-06-21
Casta Painting written by Ilona Katzew and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06-21 with Art categories.
Casta painting is a distinctive Mexican genre that portrays racial mixing among the Indians, Spaniards & Africans who inhabited the colony, depicted in sets of consecutive images. Ilona Katzew places this art form in its social & historical context.
Genealogical Fictions
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Author : María Elena Martínez
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2008
Genealogical Fictions written by María Elena Martínez and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
Genealogical Fictions examines how the state, church, Inquisition, and other institutions in colonial Mexico used the Spanish notion of limpieza de sangre (purity of blood) over time and how the concept's enduring religious, genealogical, and gendered meanings came to shape the region's patriotic and racial ideologies.
Envisioning Others Race Color And The Visual In Iberia And Latin America
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2015-10-05
Envisioning Others Race Color And The Visual In Iberia And Latin America written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-05 with History categories.
Envisioning Others offers a multidisciplinary view of the relationship between race and visual culture in the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking world, from the kingdoms of Spain and Portugal to colonial Peru and Colombia, post-Independence Mexico, and the pre-Emancipation United States.
Framing Majismo
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Author : Tara Zanardi
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2015-12-08
Framing Majismo written by Tara Zanardi and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-08 with Art categories.
Majismo, a cultural phenomenon that embodied the popular aesthetic in Spain from the second half of the eighteenth century, served as a vehicle to “regain” Spanish heritage. As expressed in visual representations of popular types participating in traditional customs and wearing garments viewed as historically Spanish, majismo conferred on Spanish “citizens” the pictorial ideal of a shared national character. In Framing Majismo, Tara Zanardi explores nobles’ fascination with and appropriation of the practices and types associated with majismo, as well as how this connection cultivated the formation of an elite Spanish identity in the late 1700s and aided the Bourbons’ objective to fashion themselves as the legitimate rulers of Spain. In particular, the book considers artistic and literary representations of the majo and the maja, purportedly native types who embodied and performed uniquely Spanish characteristics. Such visual examples of majismo emerge as critical and contentious sites for navigating eighteenth-century conceptions of gender, national character, and noble identity. Zanardi also examines how these bodies were contrasted with those regarded as “foreign,” finding that “foreign” and “national” bodies were frequently described and depicted in similar ways. She isolates and uncovers the nuances of bodily representation, ultimately showing how the body and the emergent nation were mutually constructed at a critical historical moment for both.
How To Make A New Spain
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Author : Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023
How To Make A New Spain written by Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Business & Economics categories.
"As we enter the material worlds of Spanish colonizers, we should get to know a little bit about the colonizers themselves. In this chapter, I characterize the economic standing of colonizers, focusing on their wealth and the kinds of things on which they spent or invested their money. To address issues of wealth, it will be necessary to study the kinds of coin and other media of exchange that were in use in sixteenth-century Mexico City. The people compiling the probate inventories that form the basis of this study measured and recorded the value of each item in material terms: the amount of gold that would be necessary to purchase a person's belongings. They translated each decedent's net worth into coin in official documents, with the intent of communicating and sending the value of the decedent's belongings to his or her family in Spain. Calculating the value of a decedent's belongings as gold also helped the church and the Spanish crown collect some revenue from a person's estate, through donations to the church and taxes to the king"--