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Post by barbhorses on Dec 18, 2010 20:38:50 GMT -5
Just got my new book in today titled Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in American 1492-1830. Will be sure to post anything that I come across that is interesting (like I usually do! lol)
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Post by Michelle Clarke on Dec 18, 2010 22:14:49 GMT -5
Thanks!
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Post by barbhorses on Dec 20, 2010 0:05:40 GMT -5
This was interesting in regards to racial mixing among the peoples:
"1774. These four works, taken from a series of sixteen casta paintings by a Mexican artist, are typical of a genre that was highly popular in the eighteenth century. They illustrate well the attempt to devise a taxonomy for the gradations of racial mixture to be found in the viceroyalty of New Spain." (goes on to describe the paintings): "From a Spaniard and Indian is born a mestizo; 2. From a Spaniard and a mestiza is born a castizo; 3. From an Indian and a mestiza is born a coyote; 4. From a lobo, or wolf (the result of a union between an Indian man and an African woman) is born a chino."
Very interesting! I never realized that they categorized people based on percentage of different races!
I was also always under the impression that Mexico was a Spanish word. It appears from this book that the Indians had referred to their federation as Mexica (in regards to where the Azteca empire was). So, it seems that Mexico is a bastardized form of Aztec Indian language.
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Post by barbhorses on Dec 20, 2010 0:22:49 GMT -5
It is also very interesting to note that many of the Indians welcomed the Spaniards as they were tired of Montezuma's rule. They wanted change and I guess they thought that the Spaniards would give them a better life... hmmm seems like the basic theme throughout history! Something new and shiny will be better than what they have or the age old saying of "the grass is greener on the other side of the fence".
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