{"id":13228,"date":"2011-04-12T20:53:46","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T20:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=13228"},"modified":"2014-10-29T18:05:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T18:05:41","slug":"without-impediment-crossing-racial-boundaries-in-colonial-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=13228","title":{"rendered":"Without Impediment: Crossing Racial Boundaries in Colonial Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/the_americas\/summary\/v067\/67.4.frederick.html\" target=\"_blank\">Without Impediment: Crossing Racial Boundaries in Colonial Mexico<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/the_americas\" target=\"_blank\">The Americas<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/the_americas\/toc\/tam.67.4.html\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 67, Number 4<\/a> (April 2011)<br \/>\nE-ISSN: 1533-6247; Print ISSN: 0003-1615<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawrence.edu\/faculty\/profiles\/jakeFrederick.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Federick<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On April 18, 1773, in the town of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Teziutl%C3%A1n\" target=\"_blank\">Teziutl\u00e1n<\/a> in the eastern mountains of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mexico\" target=\"_blank\">Mexico<\/a>, Captain don Raphael Padres participated in the baptism of his godson in the local church. He stood watching as Father Francisco Flandes leaned over the baptismal font to daub oil on the head of Joseph Philipe. As the priest performed the sacrament, reciting the script of baptism, the boy&#8217;s parents, don Crist\u00f3bal Hern\u00e1ndez and do\u00f1a Isabel P\u00e9rez, followed along. After anointing the child, Father Flandes turned to the militia captain to inform him of his responsibilities as godfather, explaining the spiritual kinship that Padres now had with the boy. After the rite was completed, the priest recorded his actions in the church&#8217;s book of baptisms. He noted the boy&#8217;s age and that he had been legitimately born the previous day. He also listed the names of the boy, his parents, the godfather, and the godfather&#8217;s wife, do\u00f1a Josepha Fern\u00e1ndez. The priest also pointed out that all the adults were espa\u00f1oles (of pure Spanish ancestry).<\/p>\n<p>Two years later, on July 4, 1775, Captain Padres once again stood at the baptismal font in the Teziutl\u00e1n church. The priest presiding over the rite this time was Pedro Francisco G\u00f3mez, and the child was five-day-old Mariana Paula. She too was legitimate, the child of Manuel Castillo and Antonia V\u00e1squez. According to the book of baptisms, Manuel and Antonia were de raz\u00f3n (an abbreviation of gente de raz\u00f3n), which meant literally that they had the power of reason but in the eighteenth century the term was used to describe non-natives. Padres was described only as being from the local parish; no racial information was recorded. On this occasion, for some reason, the priest did not feel that it was necessary to note a casta (racial category) for young Mariana or her parents&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/the_americas\/v067\/67.4.frederick.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without Impediment: Crossing Racial Boundaries in Colonial Mexico The Americas Volume 67, Number 4 (April 2011) E-ISSN: 1533-6247; Print ISSN: 0003-1615 Jake Federick, Assistant Professor of History Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin On April 18, 1773, in the town of Teziutl\u00e1n in the eastern mountains of Mexico, Captain don Raphael Padres participated in the baptism of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,459,8,103],"tags":[5980,20753,5981],"class_list":["post-13228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-mexico","tag-jake-federick","tag-mexico","tag-the-americas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13228","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=13228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}