Social Dimensions of Race
Mexico City, 1753
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2830751 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patricia Seed (0000-0002-5209-6097, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 569 |
| Publication date | 1982-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hispanic American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2168 • E-ISSN: 1527-1900 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2514568 |
| OpenAlex | W4239108718 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 103 |
HE relationship among race, social position, and economic roles was one of considerable significance in colonial Latin America. Race and presumed racial differences were the basic criteria for social differentiation. Initially the elite were (white) European-Spanish peninsulars, the slaves were Black, and the peasants were Indians, commonly residing apart from both Europeans and Blacks in semiautonomous communities. The economic organization of colonial society was based upon similar divisions with specific necessary tasks associated with various racial groups. The Indians were the tribute payers, the producers of food; the Blacks were the skilled and unskilled laborers on sugar plantations and in mines and servants in the great houses of the major cities. The peninsulars were the economically and socially privileged sector, benefiting from the labor of the Black and Indian populations. This tripartite division soon collapsed as miscegenation produced a series of intermediate racial categories. By the middle of the eighteenth century, the process of racial mixture in New Spain had been taking place for more than two hundred years. There were thus sufficient numbers of individuals in the category of mixed-bloods to be considered significant segments of the social order. Not only were the descendants of mixed racial origin present in sufficient numbers to make an impact on the social hierarchy, but they had lost much of their original definition as strictly biological types. By the middle of the eighteenth century, the relationship between race and the division of labor, or the socioeconomic dimension of race, was no longer as straightforward as it had been before. Where each of these new racial categories fit into the division of labor is a question that has interested several historians. Magnus Morner sug
Colonialism · Division of labour · Elite · Geography · Hierarchy · Political science · Politics · Population · Race (biology · Racial hierarchy · Social class · Social group · Social science · Social stratification · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Tribute · White (mutation) · Demography · Gender Studies · Historical Studies in Latin America · History and Politics in Latin America · Latin American history and culture · Law · Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography
Afro‐Mexican History
Depicting Mestizaje
En torno al pensamiento racial en Hispanoamérica una reflexión bibliográfica
Fractional Freedoms
Native American, African, and hispanic communities during the middle period in the Colonial Americas
Hispanic, Andean, and African Influences in the Moquegua valley of Southern Peru
A peripheral perspective
Cultural development in La Florida
Consolidation of the colonial regime
Restoring seventeenth-century New Mexico, then and now
Cross-disciplinary themes in the recovery of the colonial middle period
Marriage in Córdoba City (Argentina) in the Late-Colonial and Early-Independent Periods
The rise of Creole identity in early colonial Guatemala
Magic, popular medicine and gender in seventeenth‐century Mexico
Collapse and diverse responses in the Gulf lowlands, Mexico
La historia social de la época colonial
La nupcialidad urbana preindustrial y los límites del mestizaje
The Pleasures of Taxonomy
Race Matters in the Colonial South
Racial Distancing in a Southern City
The Ethnicity of Caste
Notaries of Color in Colonial Panama
Without Impediment
Vanishing Indians
Race and Ethnicity in Latin America
Race, Clothing and Identity
Inclusion without Representation in Latin America
Race and Ethnicity in Latin America
Introduction
Negotiating Calidad
“Made by the Son of a Black”
Social Climbers in a Colonial Mexican City
“Free Men of All Colors” in New Granada
Silencing African Descent
The Long and the Short of It
The Local Limitations to a National Political Movement
“Under the dominion of the indian”
Concluding Remarks
The Tax Man Cometh
How Interests and Values Seldom Come Alone, or
Redeemed Indians, Barbarized Cholos
Recovering History, Constructing Race
Rethinking Colonial Categories
Unfinished Migrations
Compadrazgo, movilidad social y relaciones de poder de mulatos libres. Villa de San José de Logroño, Chile, 1780-1810
The Upper Classes and Their Upper Stories
Measuring Marriage by Estate and Class
Oranges and wheat
Africans in the Spanish colonies
Nationalist Exclusion and Ethnic Conflict
Qaqchas and to Plebe in “Rebellion”
La clase alta y sus altos
El concepto de raza y la lucha contra el racismo
Capturing the quotidian
Barrio de indios»
Sangre revuelta, virtud y civilización
For Honor and Defence’
The Racial Profile of a Rural Mexican Province in the “Costa Chica”
Race and Badge
La ciudad Nómada. Poder y apropiación del espacio en el marco de los procesos de crecimiento urbano en la ciudad de Puebla
Mestizaje and Conviviality in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico
Patria mestiza
Race and Ethnicity in Latin America
Costly signaling with ceramic tablewares in Spanish colonial America
Stratification by Skin Color in Contemporary Mexico
Free Colored Voices
Aproximaciones cientificas al mestizo mexicano
Directions in Latin American Women's History, 1977-1985
Urban Society in Colonial Spanish America
A Dispute over Patrimonial Property in Huaquechula, Mexico
How Spaniards Became Chumash and other Tales of Ethnogenesis
The Mulatta on (R)lm
Afro-Latin Studies
| Unique citing works | 73 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,4 |
| Citation span | 1983 - 2026 (44) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 78 |