Las Castas – Spanish Racial Classifications

  Las castas" - Painting containing complete set of 16 casta combinations. An 18th century socio-racial classification system used in the Spanish American colonies. The European conquest of Latin America beginning in the late 15th century, was initially executed by male soldiers and sailors from the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal). The new soldier-settlers fathered…

Art: Human Races (Las Castas) - Annenberg Learner

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Full article: Fragmented Borders, Fallen Men, Bestial Women: Violence in the Casta Paintings of Eighteenth-century New Spain

Las Castas – Spanish Racial Classifications - Daniel Chacón - LibGuides at Napa Valley College

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The Casta System

Connecticut Model African American/Black and Puerto Rican/Latino Course of Studies, Semester 2: Sweat, Lesson 3.1-3: Race in Latin America: Caste or Social Hierarchy?

Mi Casta es Su Casta: The Casta System of Racial Hierarchy in New Spain

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