Las Castas – Spanish Racial Classifications

  Las castas" - Painting containing complete set of 16 casta combinations. An 18th century socio-racial classification system used in the Spanish American colonies. The European conquest of Latin America beginning in the late 15th century, was initially executed by male soldiers and sailors from the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal). The new soldier-settlers fathered…

Castas Racial Classifications

PDF) Katzew, Ilona. Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth-Century Mexico. London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. FULL PDF UPLOADED - OUT OF PRINT BOOK.

Brooklyn Museum

Connecticut Model African American/Black and Puerto Rican/Latino Course of Studies, Semester 2: Sweat, Lesson 3.1-3: Race in Latin America: Caste or Social Hierarchy?

Settler Colonialism, Families, and Racialized Thinking: Casta Painting in Latin America – Teaching Race in the European Renaissance: A Classroom Guide

How to Spanish — Las Castas [the caste system; racial classes] in

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Spaniard and Indian Produce a Mestizo, attributed to Juan Rodríguez Juárez