TY - BOOK ID - 78529574 TI - Before mestizaje : the frontiers of race and caste in Colonial Mexico PY - 2018 SN - 9781107026438 1107026431 9781107670815 9781139207744 1107670810 1108514650 1108505716 1139207741 PB - New York, N.Y. Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Caste KW - Mestizos KW - Racially mixed people KW - Individual differences KW - Group identity KW - Social control KW - Social conflict KW - Sociology KW - Liberty KW - Pressure groups KW - Collective identity KW - Community identity KW - Cultural identity KW - Social identity KW - Identity (Psychology) KW - Social psychology KW - Collective memory KW - Differences, Individual KW - Difference (Psychology) KW - Bi-racial people KW - Biracial people KW - Interracial people KW - Mixed race people KW - Mixed-racial people KW - Mulattoes KW - Multiracial people KW - Peoples of mixed descent KW - Ethnic groups KW - Miscegenation KW - Eurindians (Latin America) KW - Hispano-Indians (Latin America) KW - Mestiços KW - Indians KW - Latin Americans KW - Manners and customs KW - History KW - Political aspects&delete& KW - Mixed descent KW - Mexico KW - Anáhuac KW - Estados Unidos Mexicanos KW - Maxico KW - Méjico KW - Mekishiko KW - Meḳsiḳe KW - Meksiko KW - Meksyk KW - Messico KW - Mexique (Country) KW - República Mexicana KW - Stany Zjednoczone Meksyku KW - United Mexican States KW - United States of Mexico KW - מקסיקו KW - メキシコ KW - Race relations KW - History. KW - Social conditions KW - History of Mexico KW - anno 1500-1799 KW - anno 1800-1999 KW - Political aspects KW - Mexican United States UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78529574 AB - This book opens new dimensions on race in Latin America by examining the extreme caste groups of colonial Mexico. In tracing their experiences, a broader understanding of the connection between mestizaje (Latin America's modern ideology of racial mixture) and the colonial caste system is rendered. Before mestizaje emerged as a primary concept in Latin America, an earlier precursor existed that must be taken seriously. This colonial form of racial hybridity, encased in an elastic caste system, allowed some people to live through multiple racial lives. Hence, the great fusion of races that swept Latin America and defined its modernity, carries an important corollary. Mestizaje, when viewed at its roots, is not just about mixture, but also about dissecting and reconnecting lives.  Such experiences may have carved a special ability for some Latin American populations to reach across racial groups to relate with and understand multiple racial perspectives. This overlooked, deep history of mestizaje is a legacy that can be built upon in modern times. ER -