Blackness,""Femaleness" and Self-Representation
Constructing Persons in a Colonial Mexican Court
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2480317 |
|---|---|
| Authors | L A Lewis (0000-0003-2782-7254, University of Rochester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 81-90 |
| Publication date | 1995-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | PoLAR Political and Legal Anthropology Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1081-6976 • E-ISSN: 1555-2934 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/pol.1995.18.2.81 |
| OpenAlex | W2018085995 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 9 |
This paper examines a case heard by the colonial Mexican Inquisition in 1655. It addresses individual negotiations of race and gender in a society that hierarchized notions of personhood through a system of rankings based on Early Modern ideas about natural difference. In the New World context, those rankings subordinated women, blacks, Indians and "mixed-races" to the authority of Spanish men.
Art · Art history · Citation · Colonialism · Humanities · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics) · Sociology · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1996 - 2010 (15) |
| Highly cited | No |