Casta
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Casta is a term which means "lineage" in Spanish and Portuguese and has historically been used as a racial and social identifier. From the outset, colonial Spanish America resulted in widespread inter
Las castas. A casta painting showing 16 racial groupings. Anonymous, 18th century, oil on canvas, 148×104 cm, Museo Nacional del Virreinato, Tepotzotlán, Mexico
From a Spaniard and an Indian woman, a Mestiza. Miguel Cabrera, 1763
A Spanish (español) father, a Mestiza (mixed Spanish-Indian) mother, and their Castiza daughter. Miguel Cabrera
Luis de Mena, Virgin of Guadalupe and castas, 1750. Museo de América, Madrid
Criollo people
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In Hispanic America, criollo is a term used originally to describe people of full and near complete Spanish descent born in the New World viceroyalties, under the Spanish crown. In different Hispanic
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…and derogatory messages in caste paintings were not a general phenomenon, and that they only began to be carried out in particular environments of the Criollo oligarchies after the Bourbon Reformism and the influx of ideas of scientific racism from the illustration within some encyclopedic environments of the…
The Spanish and their descendants born in America formed the highest social group in the colony. Drawing from the New Chronicle and Good Government by Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala, 16th century.
Fermín Francisco de Carvajal Vargas, Duke of San Pedro. Creole born in the Kingdom of Chile
Criollos dancing at a ball in Colonial Chile
Criollos in what is now Guatemala rejoice upon learning about the declaration of independence from Spain on September 15, 1821.