Spaniards, 'pardos', and the missing mestizos: identities and racial categories in the early Hispanic Caribbean

Traces the history of the mestizos, the descendants of Spanish-Indian contacts during the early stages of Caribbean settlement. Author asks whether they constituted a separate ethnicity. He also looks at the question why the position of the mestizos in the Spanish Caribbean seems different from that...

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Published in:NWIG
Main Author: Stuart B. Schwartz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Brill 1997-01-01
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Online Access:http://www.kitlv-journals.nl/index.php/nwig/article/view/3355