{"id":48777,"date":"2016-08-22T23:59:36","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T23:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48777"},"modified":"2016-09-28T13:25:21","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T13:25:21","slug":"the-pleasures-of-taxonomy-casta-paintings-classification-and-colonialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48777","title":{"rendered":"The Pleasures of Taxonomy: Casta Paintings, Classification, and Colonialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/article\/627297\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The Pleasures of Taxonomy: Casta Paintings, Classification, and Colonialism<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journal\/664\" target=\"_blank\">The William and Mary Quarterly<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/issue\/33942\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 73, Number 3, July 2016, 3rd series<\/a><br \/>\npages 427-466<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.warwick.ac.uk\/fac\/arts\/cas\/staff\/earle\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Rebecca Earle<\/strong><\/a>, Professor<br \/>\nSchool of Comparative American Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A new model for thinking about the socioracial categories depicted in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Casta\" target=\"_blank\">casta paintings<\/a> (remarkable eighteenth-century Spanish American images representing the outcome of \u201cracial mixing\u201d) takes seriously both their fluidity and their genealogical character. Approaching classification, and casta paintings, from this direction clarifies the underlying <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Epistemology\" target=\"_blank\">epistemologies<\/a> that structured colonial society and helps connect the paintings more explicitly to the debates about human difference that captivated <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Age_of_Enlightenment\" target=\"_blank\">Enlightenment<\/a> thinkers. Ultimately, however, these paintings were produced and collected in the hundreds not simply because they visualized Atlantic debates about classification and human difference but because these visualizations were interesting and pleasant to contemplate. They agreeably roused the pleasures of the imagination via their taxonomic as well as their narrative power. Linking casta paintings to the importance accorded to pleasure in both the scientific and the colonial imagination helps explain their fascination, which derived from their ability to condense the complex interconnections of classification, colonialism, and sexuality into appealing images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pleasures of Taxonomy: Casta Paintings, Classification, and Colonialism The William and Mary Quarterly Volume 73, Number 3, July 2016, 3rd series pages 427-466 Rebecca Earle, Professor School of Comparative American Studies University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom A new model for thinking about the socioracial categories depicted in casta paintings (remarkable eighteenth-century Spanish American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,21,459,8],"tags":[4510,14775,9576,2005],"class_list":["post-48777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","tag-casta-paintings","tag-rebecca-earle","tag-the-william-and-mary-quarterly","tag-william-and-mary-quarterly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48777","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=48777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48778,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48777\/revisions\/48778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}