Casta%20Paintings%20in%20Colonial%20Latin%20America

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Casta Paintings in Colonial Latin America
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Many pass as Spaniards who in their hearts know
that they are mulattos.

• Pedro Alonso OCrouley, Spanish merchant

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Casta Paintings
http//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8
/Casta_painting_all.jpg
Go to the above address and click on the
individual images to enlarge
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Racial MixturesSample

• Parentage Offspring
• Spaniard negro Mulato
• Mulato indian chino grifo
• Negro indian lobo or sambo
• Spaniard indian mestizo
• Spaniard mestizo castizo or Albino
• Spaniard castizo Spaniard
• Spaniard mulato morisco
• Spaniard morisco saltas atras
• Spaniard saltras Atras tente en el aire
• Indian lobo chino cambujo
• Indian mestizo coyote
• Indian coyote Indian
• Indian chino albarazado
• Indian mulato lobo
• Spaniard morisco albino
• Chino various meanings. Chino
  grifofrizzly headed chin Chino cambujoa very
  swarthy one
• Saltas atrasliterally a jump backward away
  from Spanish stock

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Activity 1

• Pick one image to work with and answer the
  following questions on your worksheet
• Identify the document
• -Is there title?
• -Who are the people?
• -Can we date the images?
• -What objects do you see in the picture?
• -What are the people doing in the images?
• -What does their clothing tell us

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Activity 1 continued

• What is the main idea behind casta paintings?
• Who was the intended audience?
• What was the purpose of these paintings?
• Can you detect bias?
• Is there a trend seen in the images?
• What questions can you think of, if you could ask
  the artist or producer?

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Activity 2 General Questions

• Read the Role-Play handout on Life in the Spanish
  Colonies and discuss with your neighbors
• Discuss how the Latin American social system
  compares (sims diffs) with Medieval European
  society
• Compare with the Hindu caste system
• Can it be compare to the Jim Crow system in the
  Southern States?