Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction: Racial Identities and Their Interpreters in Colonial Latin America 1
6. 1. Aristocracy on the Auction Block: Race, Lords, and the Perpetuity Controversy of Sixteenth-Century Peru 39
7. 2. A Market of Identities: Women, Trade, and Ethnic Labels in Colonial Potosí 61
8. 3. Legally Indian: Inquisitorial Readings of Indigenous Identity in New Spain 81
9. 4. The Many Faces of Colonialism in Two Iberoamerican Borderlands: Northern New Spain and the Eastern Lowlands of Charcas 101
10. 5. Humble Slaves and Loyal Vassals: Free Africans and Their Descendants in Eighteenth-Century Minas Gerais, Brazil 115
11. 6. Purchasing Whiteness: Conversations on the Essence of Pardo-ness and Mulatto-ness at the End of Empire 141
12. 7. Patricians and Plebeians in Late Colonial Charcas: Identity, Representation, and Colonialism 167
13. 8. Conjuring Identities: Race, Nativeness, Local Citizenship, and Royal Slavery on an Imperial Frontier (Revisiting El Cobre, Cuba) 197
14. 9. Indigenous Citizenship: Liberalism, Political Participation, and Ethnic Identity in Post-Independence Oaxaca and Yucatán 225
15. Conclusion 249
16. Bibliography 263
17. Contributors 291
18. Index 293