Imperial Subjects

"This excellent and necessary collection brings together some of the most important scholarship on race in colonial Latin America. Importantly, the contributors do not assume racial and ethnic identities to be static, nor do they take hybridity as a given. Rather, they examine the social identities that emerged from 'contact points' between institutions and individuals."--Pete Sigal, author of "From Moon Goddesses to Virgins: The Colonization of Yucatecan Maya Sexual Desire"

Andrew B. Fisher and Matthew D. O Hara, eds.

"Grounded in solid archival research and informed by sound, up-to-date theoretical approaches, these essays break substantial new ground in showing how 'ordinary' people experienced living in the Spanish and Portuguese empires. Anyone wishing to sample the best in recent scholarship on colonial Latin America should begin with this book."--Cheryl English Martin, author of Governance and Society in Colonial Mexico: Chihuahua in the Eighteenth Century "This excellent and necessary collection brings together some of the most important scholarship on race in colonial Latin America. Importantly, the contributors do not assume racial and ethnic identities to be static, nor do they take hybridity as a given. Rather, they examine the social identities that emerged from 'contact points' between institutions and individuals."--Pete Sigal, author of From Moon Goddesses to Virgins: The Colonization of Yucatecan Maya Sexual Desire