{"id":5347,"date":"2010-02-18T18:38:59","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T18:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=5347"},"modified":"2014-12-14T22:22:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T22:22:06","slug":"genealogical-fictions-limpieza-de-sangre-religion-and-gender-in-colonial-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=5347","title":{"rendered":"Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sup.org\/books\/title\/?id=7860\" target=\"_blank\">Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sup.org\" target=\"_blank\">Stanford University Press<\/a><br \/>\n2008<br \/>\n424 pages<br \/>\n13 illustrations, 2 maps.<br \/>\nISBN-10: 0804756481; ISBN-13: 9780804756488<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=38886\" target=\"_blank\">Mar\u00eda Elena Mart\u00ednez (1966-2014)<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of History and American Studies and Ethnicity<br \/>\n<em>University of Southern California<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sup.org\/books\/title\/?id=7860\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sup.org\/img\/covers\/large\/pid_7860.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mar\u00eda Elena Mart\u00ednez&#8217;s <em>Genealogical Fictions<\/em> is the first in-depth study of the relationship between the Spanish concept <em>of limpieza de sangre<\/em> (purity of blood) and colonial Mexico&#8217;s <em>sistema de castas<\/em>, a hierarchical system of social classification based primarily on ancestry. Specifically, it explains how this notion surfaced amid socio-religious tensions in early modern Spain, and was initially used against Jewish and Muslim converts to Christianity. It was then transplanted to the Americas, adapted to colonial conditions, and employed to create and reproduce identity categories according to descent. <strong>Mart\u00ednez also examines how the state, church, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mexican_Inquisition\" target=\"_blank\">Inquisition<\/a>, and other institutions in colonial Mexico used the notion of purity of blood over time, arguing that the concept&#8217;s enduring religious, genealogical, and gendered meanings and the archival practices it promoted came to shape the region&#8217;s patriotic and racial ideologies.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico Stanford University Press 2008 424 pages 13 illustrations, 2 maps. ISBN-10: 0804756481; ISBN-13: 9780804756488 Mar\u00eda Elena Mart\u00ednez (1966-2014), Associate Professor of History and American Studies and Ethnicity University of Southern California Mar\u00eda Elena Mart\u00ednez&#8217;s Genealogical Fictions is the first in-depth study of the relationship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,21,459,8,103,17,820,394],"tags":[2225,18750,339],"class_list":["post-5347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-mexico","category-monographs","category-religion","category-socialscience","tag-maria-elena-martinez","tag-maria-elena-martinez-lopez","tag-stanford-university-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5347","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=5347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}