Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico by María Elena Martínez

Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico

María Elena Martínez

424 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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María Elena Martínez's Genealogical Fictions is the first in-depth study of the relationship between the Spanish concept of limpieza de sangre (purity of blood) and colonial Mexico's sistema de castas, a hierarchical system of social classificatio...

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