Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America

by Andrew Fisher

Book Overview

In colonial Latin America, social identity did not correlate neatly with fixed categories of race and ethnicity. As Imperial Subjects demonstrates, from the early years of Spanish and Portuguese rule, understandings of race and ethnicity were fluid. In this collection, historians offer nuanced interpretations of identity as they investigate how Iberian settlers, African slaves, Native Americans, and their multi-ethnic progeny understood who...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822344203
• ISBN13: 9780822344209
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"