Tag: Ann Twinam

  • Purchasing Whiteness: Race and Status in Colonial Latin America Not Even Past: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” —William Faulkner Department of History University of Texas at Austin 2015-09-01 Ann Twinam, Professor of History University of Texas, Austin Let’s start with a question and a comparison. What do you think would have…

  • Purchasing Whiteness in Colonial Latin America Not Even Past: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” —William Faulkner Department of History University of Texas at Austin 2013-09-18 Ann Twinam, Professor of History University of Texas, Austin The castas, or mixed race populations, suffered numerous forms of discrimination in colonial Latin America, but in…

  • Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America Duke University Press 2009 320 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4401-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4420-9 Edited by: Matthew D. O’Hara, Assistant Professor of History University of California, Santa Cruz Andrew Fisher, Associate Professor of History Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota In colonial Latin America, social identity did not correlate neatly with…