Imagining identity in New Spain : race, lineage, and the colonial body in portraiture and casta paintings /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Carrera, Magali Marie, 1950-
Edition:	1st ed.
Imprint:	Austin : University of Texas Press, 2003.
Description:	xviii, 188 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture
Subject:	Casta painting. Racially mixed people in art. Casta painting. Manners and customs. Racially mixed people in art. Mexico -- Social life and customs -- 18th century. Mexico.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4847445

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ISBN:	0292712456 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-183) and index.

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Visual Practices in Late-Colonial Mexico
Chapter One. Identity by Appearance, Judgment, and Circumstances: Race as Lineage and Calidad
Chapter Two. The Faces and Bodies of Eighteenth-Century Metropolitan Mexico: An Overview of Social Context
Chapter Three. Envisioning the Colonial Body
Chapter Four. Regulating and Narrating the Colonial Body
Chapter Five. From Popolacho to Citizen: The Re-vision of the Colonial Body
Epilogue: Dreams of Order
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

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