{"id":33741,"date":"2013-09-21T05:39:01","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T05:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=33741"},"modified":"2013-09-21T06:09:58","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T06:09:58","slug":"purchasing-whiteness-in-colonial-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=33741","title":{"rendered":"Purchasing Whiteness in Colonial Latin America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notevenpast.org\/discover\/purchasing-whiteness-colonial-latin-america\" target=\"_blank\">Purchasing Whiteness in Colonial Latin America<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notevenpast.org\" target=\"_blank\">Not Even Past: &#8220;<em>The past is never dead. It&#8217;s not even past.<\/em>&#8221; \u2014William Faulkner<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.utexas.edu\/cola\/depts\/history\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Department of History<\/a><br \/>\nUniversity of Texas at Austin<br \/>\n2013-09-18<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.utexas.edu\/cola\/depts\/history\/faculty\/at2552\" target=\"_blank\">Ann Twinam<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>University of Texas, Austin<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The castas, or mixed race populations, suffered numerous forms of discrimination in colonial Latin America, but in practice <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/pardo#Galician\" target=\"_blank\">pardos<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">mulatos<\/a> could still achieve some social mobility.\u00a0 A rare few, by the mid eighteenth century, were able to petition the Spanish crown through a process known as the <em>gracias al sacar<\/em>, to purchase whiteness&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notevenpast.org\/discover\/purchasing-whiteness-colonial-latin-america\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purchasing Whiteness in Colonial Latin America Not Even Past: &#8220;The past is never dead. It&#8217;s not even past.&#8221; \u2014William 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 [&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],"tags":[8550,15853,5752,4134],"class_list":["post-33741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","tag-ann-twinam","tag-not-even-past","tag-university-of-texas","tag-university-of-texas-at-austin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33741","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=33741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}