HILA 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Spanish Nobility, Peninsulars, Casta

• School: University of Virginia
• Department: History-Latin American History
• Course: HILA 2001
• Professor: Thomas Klubock

Document Summary

Reordering race/ethnicity and gender: shift from early gender flexibility where people can ascend in spanish nobility ranks (i. e. don. Martin and his sisters) to an effort from spanish to implement a rigid hierarchy based on race, etc. Defined by one"s ethnic or racial background. Related to your nobility, but also to your clean bloodedness . Signifies clean blod and honor which provides legitimacy. Peninsular = born in spanish peninsula of iberia. Creole = born in americans: plays massive role in hierarchies. Society of deep patriarchy and insane hierarchal elements. Multitude of legal cases where people"s caste identification labels = different than it really was. Monday, november 28, 2016: casta paintings = rigid. Define people as 1/4 african or what so not: very strict laws in where casta can live, etc. Speaks to the spanish colonial authority"s purpose of putting rule/law on a society they don"t fully know how to control.