{"id":13189,"date":"2011-04-09T18:42:54","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T18:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=13189"},"modified":"2014-10-17T17:08:38","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T17:08:38","slug":"mulata-hija-de-negro-y-india-afro-indigenous-mulatos-in-early-colonial-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=13189","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Mulata, Hija de Negro y India&#8221;: Afro-Indigenous Mulatos in Early Colonial Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1353\/jsh.2011.0007\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Mulata, Hija de Negro y India&#8221;: Afro-Indigenous Mulatos in Early Colonial Mexico<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/journal_of_social_history\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Social History<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/journal_of_social_history\/toc\/jsh.44.3.html\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 44, Number 3<\/a> (Spring 2011)<br \/>\npages 889-914<br \/>\nE-ISSN: 1527-1897; Print ISSN: 0022-4529<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1353\/jsh.2011.0007\" target=\"_blank\">10.1353\/jsh.2011.0007<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/history.uncc.edu\/Faculty\/schwaller-robert.html\" target=\"_blank\">Robert C. Schwaller<\/a><\/strong>, Lecturer of History<br \/>\n<em>University of North Carolinia, Charlotte<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Since the fifteenth century, the term &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">mulato<\/a>&#8221; has been used to describe individuals of mixed African and European ancestry. Through an examination of mulatos from sixteenth century <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Spain\" target=\"_blank\">New Spain<\/a> this piece complicates our understanding of the usage and implication of this socio-racial ascription. <strong>Both demographic and anecdotal evidence suggests that in the early colonial period mulato frequently described individuals of mixed African-indigenous ancestry.<\/strong> Moreover, these individuals may have represented the majority of individuals so named. Additionally this piece uses several case studies to demonstrate that Afro-indigenous mulatos formed frequent and long-term connections to indigenous society and culture. Through acculturation and familial ties, early mulatos helped to encourage interethnic unions and may have played a key role in the growth of a highly varied, multi-ethnic colonial population in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mexico\" target=\"_blank\">Mexico<\/a>. By highlighting these important trends, this study challenges our traditional assumptions concerning the category of mulato and suggests that we must avoid the homogenizing tendency inherent in such terminology.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/journal_of_social_history\/v044\/44.3.schwaller.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Mulata, Hija de Negro y India&#8221;: Afro-Indigenous Mulatos in Early Colonial Mexico Journal of Social History Volume 44, Number 3 (Spring 2011) pages 889-914 E-ISSN: 1527-1897; Print ISSN: 0022-4529 DOI: 10.1353\/jsh.2011.0007 Robert C. Schwaller, Lecturer of History University of North Carolinia, Charlotte Since the fifteenth century, the term &#8220;mulato&#8221; has been used to describe individuals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,21,459,8,103],"tags":[2092,20753,5947,5948],"class_list":["post-13189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-mexico","tag-journal-of-social-history","tag-mexico","tag-robert-c-schwaller","tag-robert-schwaller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}