Bound lives : Africans, Indians, and the making of race in colonial Peru / Rachel Sarah O'Toole.
2012
F3429.3.G6 O9 2012 (Mapit)
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Title
Bound lives : Africans, Indians, and the making of race in colonial Peru / Rachel Sarah O'Toole.
Author
O'Toole, Rachel Sarah.
ISBN
9780822961932 pbk. alk. paper
0822961938 pbk. alk. paper
0822961938 pbk. alk. paper
Imprint
Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2012.
Language
English
Description
xii, 257 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Call Number
F3429.3.G6 O9 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.800985
985.03
985.03
Summary
"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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
Pitt Latin American series.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: constructing Casta on Peru's northern coast
Between Black and Indian: labor demands and the Crown's Casta
Working slavery's value, making diaspora kinships
Acting as a legal Indian: natural vassals and worrisome natives
Market exchanges and meeting the Indians elsewhere
Justice within slavery
The laws of Casta, the making of race.
Between Black and Indian: labor demands and the Crown's Casta
Working slavery's value, making diaspora kinships
Acting as a legal Indian: natural vassals and worrisome natives
Market exchanges and meeting the Indians elsewhere
Justice within slavery
The laws of Casta, the making of race.