{"product_id":"the-disappearing-mestizo-configuring-difference-in-the-colonial-new-kingdom-of-granada-9780822356295","title":"The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada","description":"Much of the scholarship on difference in colonial Spanish America has been based on the \"racial\" categorizations of indigeneity, Africanness, and the eighteenth-century Mexican castas system. Adopting an alternative approach to the question of difference, Joanne Rappaport examines what it meant to be mestizo (of mixed parentage) in the early colonial era. She draws on lively vignettes culled from the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century archives of the New Kingdom of Granada (modern-day Colombia) to show that individuals classified as \"mixed\" were not members of coherent sociological groups. Rather, they slipped in and out of the mestizo category. Sometimes they were identified as mestizos, sometimes as Indians or Spaniards. In other instances, they identified themselves by attributes such as their status, the language that they spoke, or the place where they lived. \u003ci\u003eThe Disappearing Mestizo\u003c\/i\u003e suggests that processes of identification in early colonial Spanish America were fluid and rooted in an epistemology entirely distinct from modern racial discourses.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joanne Rappaport\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/04\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.20w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822356295\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2014 pg. 324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoanne Rappaport is Professor of Anthropology, and Spanish and Portuguese, at Georgetown University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eIntercultural Utopias: Public Intellectuals, Cultural Experimentation, and Ethnic Dialogue in Colombia\u003c\/i\u003e and coauthor (with Tom Cummins) of \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Lettered City: Indigenous Literacies in the Andes\u003c\/i\u003e, both also published by Duke University Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40198620676211,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":96.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_9c499317-d4e9-4e84-84ac-2cb79df75c3c.jpg?v=1656079362","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-disappearing-mestizo-configuring-difference-in-the-colonial-new-kingdom-of-granada-9780822356295","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}