@article{470980,
      recid = {470980},
      author = {O'Toole, Rachel Sarah.},
      title = {Bound lives : Africans, Indians, and the making of race in  colonial Peru /},
      publisher = {University of Pittsburgh Press,},
      address = {Pittsburgh :},
      pages = {xii, 257 p. :},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {"Bound Lives chronicles the lived experience of race  relations in northern coastal Peru during the colonial era.  Rachel Sarah O'Toole examines how Andeans and Africans  negotiated and employed casta and, in doing so, constructed  these racial categories. Royal and vice regal authorities  separated 'Indians' from 'blacks' by defining each  according to specific labor demands. Casta categories did  the work of race, yet not all casta categories were  uniformly applied since Andeans, Africans, and their  descendants were bound by their locations within  colonialism and slavery. The secular colonial legal system  clearly favored indigenous populations. Andeans were  afforded greater protections as native vassals, whereas  Africans were often subject to the judgements of local  slaveholding authorities. Africans claimed new kinships to  protect themselves in disputes with their captors and  countered slaveholders' claims on their time and labor by  invoking customary practices."--p. [4] of cover.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/470980},
}