Rachel Sarah O''Toole
Biographic Data
| ID | 234602 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Sarah O''Toole |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | O''Toole |
| SIGNATURE | TOOLE R S O |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sexuality and the Unnatural in Colonial Latin America
Zeb Tortorici explains that gender and sex were defined in colonial Latin America according to bodily designations. Drawing on the growing field of early modern science studies, the editor and the nine contributors work to explain how distinctions between natural and unnatural ordered inhabitants of the Iberian Americas. The volume, as a whole, asks how colonial authorities and church officials described people who did not present as gender norma…
The Disappearing Mestizo
Purchasing Whiteness
Ann Twinam defines what whiteness was in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Spanish officials and Spanish American elites constructed whiteness, a category rooted in bureaucratic privilege, a reputation of legitimacy, and a public perception of color (p. 407). By tracing the adjudicating, implementing, and petitioning for casta mobility and the privilege of gracias al sacar, defined as purchasing whitening, Twinam reveals the mul…
Don Carlos Chimo del Perú
Siguiendo el rastro judicial y notarial dejado a mediados del siglo XVII por un indígena que decía llamarse Carlos Chimo, desde sus enfrentamientos con las autoridades coloniales en la costa norte del Perú hasta su desafiante presentación ante la corte real española, este artículo explora las formas en que líderes andinos afirmaron múltiples identidades y, en el proceso, hicieron evidente la posición ambigua de los vasallos indígenas en los reino…
Devotion, Domination, and the Work of Fantasy in Colonial Peru
This article examines a 1670s Peruvian Inquisition case involving two young nuns and their Franciscan confessor in order to reveal the work of mimicry, sex, and race in colonial Latin America. By placing the events of the trial within the context of northern coastal Peru, where Africans and their descendants were at least 40 percent of the population and, increasingly, the labor backbone of the export economy in wheat and sugar, the article explo…
From the Rivers of Guinea to the Valleys of Peru
Research Article| September 01 2007 From the Rivers of Guinea to the Valleys of Peru: BECOMING A BRAN DIASPORA WITHIN SPANISH SLAVERY Rachel Sarah O'Toole Rachel Sarah O'Toole Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2007) 25 (3 (92)): 19–36. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2007-003 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Rachel Sarah O'Toole; From the Rivers of Guinea to the Valley…
Introduction
Introduction: Constructing Difference in Colonial Latin America1 Leo J. Garofalo and Rachel Sarah O’Toole What differences mattered to the majority of inhabitants in colonial Latin America? How did subaltern people conceptualize their identities and those of neighbors, co-workers, and strangers? Who did indigenous villagers consider to be members of their communities? How did rural Indians and urban slaves use their locations within Spanish Ameri…
Danger in the Convent
Danger in the Convent: Colonial Demons, Idolatrous Indias, and Bewitching Negras in Santa Clara (Trujillo del Perú)1 Rachel Sarah O’Toole In early 1674, troubling rumors began to circulate throughout the city of Trujillo on the northern Peruvian coast. The local nuns of Santa Clara were said to be bewitched by bad spirits or perhaps possessed by demons. Surprisingly, these reports originated from the Santa Clara convent itself, as religious women…
Modern Inquisitions
From the Rivers of Guinea to the Valleys of Peru
Research Article| September 01 2007 From the Rivers of Guinea to the Valleys of Peru: BECOMING A BRAN DIASPORA WITHIN SPANISH SLAVERY Rachel Sarah O'Toole Rachel Sarah O'Toole Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2007) 25 (3 (92)): 19–36. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2007-003 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Rachel Sarah O'Toole; From the Rivers of Guinea to the Valley…
Introduction
Introduction: Constructing Difference in Colonial Latin America1 Leo J. Garofalo and Rachel Sarah O’Toole What differences mattered to the majority of inhabitants in colonial Latin America? How did subaltern people conceptualize their identities and those of neighbors, co-workers, and strangers? Who did indigenous villagers consider to be members of their communities? How did rural Indians and urban slaves use their locations within Spanish Ameri…
Modern Inquisitions
Introduction
Introduction: Constructing Difference in Colonial Latin America1 Leo J. Garofalo and Rachel Sarah O’Toole What differences mattered to the majority of inhabitants in colonial Latin America? How did subaltern people conceptualize their identities and those of neighbors, co-workers, and strangers? Who did indigenous villagers consider to be members of their communities? How did rural Indians and urban slaves use their locations within Spanish Ameri…
Danger in the Convent
Danger in the Convent: Colonial Demons, Idolatrous Indias, and Bewitching Negras in Santa Clara (Trujillo del Perú)1 Rachel Sarah O’Toole In early 1674, troubling rumors began to circulate throughout the city of Trujillo on the northern Peruvian coast. The local nuns of Santa Clara were said to be bewitched by bad spirits or perhaps possessed by demons. Surprisingly, these reports originated from the Santa Clara convent itself, as religious women…
From the Rivers of Guinea to the Valleys of Peru
Research Article| September 01 2007 From the Rivers of Guinea to the Valleys of Peru: BECOMING A BRAN DIASPORA WITHIN SPANISH SLAVERY Rachel Sarah O'Toole Rachel Sarah O'Toole Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2007) 25 (3 (92)): 19–36. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2007-003 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Rachel Sarah O'Toole; From the Rivers of Guinea to the Valley…
Don Carlos Chimo del Perú
Siguiendo el rastro judicial y notarial dejado a mediados del siglo XVII por un indígena que decía llamarse Carlos Chimo, desde sus enfrentamientos con las autoridades coloniales en la costa norte del Perú hasta su desafiante presentación ante la corte real española, este artículo explora las formas en que líderes andinos afirmaron múltiples identidades y, en el proceso, hicieron evidente la posición ambigua de los vasallos indígenas en los reino…
Devotion, Domination, and the Work of Fantasy in Colonial Peru
This article examines a 1670s Peruvian Inquisition case involving two young nuns and their Franciscan confessor in order to reveal the work of mimicry, sex, and race in colonial Latin America. By placing the events of the trial within the context of northern coastal Peru, where Africans and their descendants were at least 40 percent of the population and, increasingly, the labor backbone of the export economy in wheat and sugar, the article explo…
The Disappearing Mestizo
Purchasing Whiteness
Ann Twinam defines what whiteness was in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Spanish officials and Spanish American elites constructed whiteness, a category rooted in bureaucratic privilege, a reputation of legitimacy, and a public perception of color (p. 407). By tracing the adjudicating, implementing, and petitioning for casta mobility and the privilege of gracias al sacar, defined as purchasing whitening, Twinam reveals the mul…
Sexuality and the Unnatural in Colonial Latin America
Zeb Tortorici explains that gender and sex were defined in colonial Latin America according to bodily designations. Drawing on the growing field of early modern science studies, the editor and the nine contributors work to explain how distinctions between natural and unnatural ordered inhabitants of the Iberian Americas. The volume, as a whole, asks how colonial authorities and church officials described people who did not present as gender norma…
Art (7 works) · History (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Colonialism (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Latin American history and culture (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Art history (3 works)