Casta | search
Click here to view Casta news from 60+ newspapers.
Bookmark or Share- Understanding the Mexican Casta System: A Historical and Cultural ...Introduction. In colonial Mexico, the Casta system was a rigid socio-racial classification imposed by Spanish colonial rule, designed to maintain a hierarchy based on ancestry. This system intricately categorized individuals based on their racial makeup, profoundly influencing their social status, rights, and opportunities.
- Smarthistory – Teaching guideConstructing identity in the Spanish ...Casta paintings depicted stereotypes about race and social class in New Spain. How do we, today, perpetuate stereotypes about race, class, and identity in the United States? While the casta paintings are about race, they can also tell us something about gender.
- Casta - WikipediaCasta (Spanish:) is a term meaning lineage or race in Spanish and Portuguese. The term has historically been used as a racial and social identifier for mixed-race offspring in the colonial Spanish Empire in the Americas .
- Sistema de Castas (1500s-ca. 1829) - BlackpastSistema de Castas (or Society of Castes) was a porous racial classification system in colonial New Spain (present-day Mexico). It was a “hierarchal ordering of racial groups according to their proportion of Spanish blood.”
- Francisco Clapera, set of sixteen casta paintings - SmarthistoryCasta paintings used labels and visual details such as different skin tones, dress, occupations, and settings to distinguish ethnicity and to signal economic and class divisions. These images did not reflect reality so much as represent stereotypes arranged along a biased, hierarchical scale.
More
