Imagining Identity in New Spain: Race, Lineage, and the Colonial Body in Portraiture and Casta Paintings

Author/Contributor(s):	Carrera, Magali M
Publisher:	University of Texas Press
Date:	04/01/2003
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Using an interdisciplinary approach that also considers legal, literary, and religious documents of the period, Magali Carrera focuses on eighteenth-century portraiture and casta paintings to understand how the people and spaces of New Spain were conceptu