Blood and Boundaries - The Limits of Religious and Racial Exclusion in Early Modern Latin America
Blood and Boundaries - The Limits of Religious and Racial Exclusion in Early Modern Latin America In Blood and Boundaries, Stuart B. Rather than concentrating on the three principal divisions of…
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Blood and Boundaries - The Limits of Religious and Racial Exclusion in Early Modern Latin America
In Blood and Boundaries, Stuart B. Rather than concentrating on the three principal divisions of colonial society--Indians, Europeans, and people of African origins--as is common in studies of these colonial societies, Schwartz examines the three minority groups of moriscos, conversos, and mestizos. Schwartz takes us to late medieval Latin America to show how Spain and Portugal's policies of exclusion and discrimination based on religious origins and genealogy were transferred to their colonies in Latin America.
This led to the creation of "cleanliness of blood" regulations that Muslim and Jewish converts and their descendants, he shows, posed a special problem for colonial society: they were feared and distrusted as peoples considered ethnically distinct, but at the same time their conversion to Christianity seemed to violate stable social categories and identities.