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Casta

Casta (.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}Spanish: ) is a term which means "lineage" in Spanish and Portuguese and has historically been used as a racial and social identifier. From the outset…

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"Colonial Caste System" debate

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Casta paintings of the 18th century

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"Purity of blood" and the evolution of racial classification

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"Colonial Caste System" debate

"Purity of blood" and the evolution of racial classification

Casta classifications and legal consequences

Casta paintings of the 18th century

Casta painting

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Casta

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related to Further reading · 205
Casta → Aaron, Africans, Aires, Alberro, Albuquerque, Alleged Mulattos, Althouse, América, América Indígena, Anderson, Andrew, Andrews, Angel, Ann, April, August, Barbara, Before Mestizaje, Ben III, Berkeley
related to Casta painting · 64
Casta → Americas Society Art Gallery, Austin, Carolyn, Carrera, Casta Painting, Casta Paintings, Classification, Colonial Body, Colonial Latin America, Colonial Latin American Review, Colonial Mexico, Colonial Spanish America, Colonialism, Considering Visual Culture, Dana, Dean, Earle, Eighteenth-Century Mexico, Elena Isabel, Estrada
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Casta → American-born Spaniards, An, Artwork, Asturias, Barreda's, Cabinet, For, Guadalupe, Ignacio María Barreda, In, It, Junyent, Luis, Madrid, Mena, Mena's, Mexico, Mexico's, Most, Museo
related to External links · 31
Casta → An, Art Genre Reveals, Breamore House, Carly, Casta Paintings, Castas, Century Attitudes, Codify Race, Failed, Inventing Race Through Art/Mexican, JSTOR, Juan Rodríguez Juárez, June, King, Latin America, Mexican, Mexico, Nova, Nuestros Ranchos Genealogy, Racial Classifications
related to "Purity of blood" and the evolution of racial classification · 19
Casta → Al-Andalus, Black Africans, Christian, Christianity, Jewish, Jewish Conversos, Juan Valiente, Latin America, Moriscos, Muslim, Others, Saharan, Spain, Spain's, Spaniards, Spanish Conquistadors, Spanish Inquisition, The, The Inquisition
related to Casta classifications and legal consequences · 18
Casta → Black, Blacks, Castas, Chile, Christóbal, In, In Spanish America, Indigenous, Lima, Peru, Placement, Richard Boyer, Spanish, Starting, The, Toro, White, Whites
related to "Colonial Caste System" debate · 15
Casta → Both, Bourbon Reformism, Criollo, Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán, However, La, Latin America, Mexican, New Spain, Pilar Gonzalbo, Polish-Venezuelan, Rosenblat, She, Spanish, The
related to Etymology · 8
Casta → English, Iberian, It, Middle Ages, Portuguese, Proto-Indo-European, Spanish, The Portuguese
related to Sample sets of casta paintings · 8
Casta → Also, Black, Indian-White, Note, Presented, The, There, These
related to Use of Casta terminology · 6
Casta → Although, For, In, Spaniards, Spanish America, The

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plebeinstance ofoften used together with other terms0.80text
vulgoinstance ofoften used together with other terms0.80text
nacionesinstance ofoften used together with other terms0.80text
clasesinstance ofoften used together with other terms0.80text
calidadesinstance ofoften used together with other terms0.80text
otras gentesinstance ofoften used together with other terms0.80text
etc.Ben Vinsoninstance ofoften used together with other terms0.80text
in a 2018 study of the historical archives of Mexicoinstance ofoften used together with other terms0.80text
addressing the issue of racial diversity in Mexicoinstance ofoften used together with other terms0.80text
its relationship with imperial Spaininstance ofoften used together with other terms0.80text
ratified these conclusionsinstance ofoften used together with other terms0.80text
holding office that is reserved for Whitesinstance ofwhere people could unofficially 'pass' as a different race in order to gain the benefits of that race0.80text

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