Race and Class in Colonial Oaxaca,New

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In this case study of changing social stratification in the city of Antequera (now Oaxaca) during the period of Spanish rule, the author's central concern is the development and functioning of the sistema de castas the system of ranked ethnic statuses, encoded in Spanish law, that emerged in response to the growth of the city's racially mixed population. Using parish records, lawsuits, and other archival sources, he demonstrates that this system was far from static throughout the three centuries of colonial rule and, more surprisingly, was not so rigid as most students of the period contend. In fact, he finds, an unexpectedly large number of people of mixed ancestry were able to attain white (creole) status through the accumulation of wealth or strategic marriage alliances. The author rejects previous interpretations of colonial Spanish American social structure as too feudal in orientation, and instead presents a new interpretation based on ideas of Max Weber and Gerhard Lenski and recent anthropological studies of race and ethnic relations.

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