The composite pardo of seventeenth-century Lima: blackness, whiteness, and Creole self-fashioning in the earliest portraits of Martín de Porres.
The article focuses on composite pardo of seventeenth-century Lima, Peru on blackness, whiteness, and Creole self-fashioning in the earliest portraits of Martín de Porres. It mentions portrayals of Martín depict his racialized social status deserve further examination and solidification of skin-colo...
| Publicado en: | Colonial Latin American Review Vol. 30; no. 2; pp. 272 - 305 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jun2021
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| Sumario: | The article focuses on composite pardo of seventeenth-century Lima, Peru on blackness, whiteness, and Creole self-fashioning in the earliest portraits of Martín de Porres. It mentions portrayals of Martín depict his racialized social status deserve further examination and solidification of skin-color based racial hierarchies. It also mentions effort made by white Creole elites in Lima, Peru in the mid-to-late seventeenth century to fashion themselves before the larger Catholic world. |
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