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140: 33: 224:"If the mixed-blood is the offspring of a Spaniard and an Indian, the stigma disappears at the third step in descent because it is held as systematic that a Spaniard and an Indian produce a mestizo; a mestizo and a Spaniard, a castizo; and a castizo and a Spaniard, a Spaniard. . The admixture of Indian blood should not indeed be regarded as a blemish, since the provisions of law give the Indian all that he could wish for, and 190: 155:." In colonial censuses, officials sought to keep track of certain categories, particularly where a person could claim to be a Spaniard. "In the censuses of white/mestizo households, provisions were made to keep accurate records of castizos. The flexibility of having three categories (mestizo, castizo, and español) provided census takers a broader framework within which to capture differences of 135:
in the designations. Individuals might be classified or identify themselves with different categories at different points in their lives. Sometimes different labels were used simultaneously in the same documentation.
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granted to mestizos the privilege of becoming priests. On this consideration is based the common estimation of descent from a union of Indian and European or creole Spaniard."
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Terms like "Castizo", "Cholo" and "Mestizo" were once seen as derogatory or demeaning, however many people now use this word with a sense of pride for their heritage.
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An eighteenth-century visitor to colonial Mexico published the following observation about race mixture between Spaniards and Amerindians:
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was widely recognized by the 18th century in colonial Mexico and was a standard category portrayed in eighteenth-century
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is given as "uncertain origin". It appears in 1543 with the meaning "class, condition, social position" (
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Most scholars do not view the racial labels and hierarchical ordering as a rigid or official "system of
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Marriage licenses required a declaration of racial status for each partner. The category
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has also come to mean mixed-race people with light skin, in comparison to
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In the 1778 census that was carried out in the territory of present-day
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Before Mestizaje: The Frontiers of Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico
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In the taxonomic chart accompanying a work on casta paintings,
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The Myth of Santa Fe: Creating a Modern Regional Tradition
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Las Castas Mexicanas: Un Género Pictórico Americano
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Index

Castiza

Spaniard
mestiza
Miguel Cabrera
Spanish America
Spanish
Amerindian
casta paintings
Spaniard
mestiza
castes
fluidity

New Spain
phenotype
Argentina
Carlos III of Spain
criollos
Juan José de Vértiz y Salcedo

Diego Maradona
Queen
Galician
Italian
Croatian
Guaraní
Philip II
mulattos
pardos

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