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Gente de razón (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈxente ðe raˈθon], "people of reason" or "rational people") is a Spanish term used in colonial Spanish America and modern Hispanic America to refer to people who were culturally Hispanicized. It was a social distinction that existed alongside the racial categories of the sistema de castas.
Las castas.Casta painting showing 16 racial groupings. Anonymous, 18th century, oil on canvas, 148×104 cm, Museo Nacional del Virreinato, Tepotzotlán, Mexico Casta (Spanish:) is a term which means "lineage" in Spanish and Portuguese and has historically been used as a racial and social identifier.
The manuscript states that the sistema de castas [5] was also mocked by the formation of the Baratillo “brotherhood” which was composed exclusively of non-whites, mainly mulattos. This brotherhood banned membership to Spaniards and their descendants, and instead made them targets of the brotherhood's scams.
Manuel Dominguez, addressed as Don Manuel, was born January 26, 1803, [1] in the colonial Las Californias province of the Spanish Viceroyalty of New Spain (colonial México). He was born into a prominent Alta California family. In the colonial Spanish racial classification system sistema de castas he was an Español Criollo.
The child of a Spaniard (right) and a mestiza (middle) is a castiza. By Miguel Cabrera. (1763) Castizo [a] (fem. Castiza) was a racial category used in 18th-century Spanish America to refer to people who were three-quarters Spanish by descent and one-quarter Amerindian.
De Castizo y India, Coyota. Anonymous, 18th century Mexico. Anonymous, 18th century Mexico. Coyote (fem. Coyota ) (from the Nahuatl word coyotl , coyote ) is a colonial Spanish American racial term for a mixed-race person casta that usually refers to a person born of parents, one of whom a Mestizo (mixed Spanish + Indigenous) and the other ...
San Salvador, El Salvador: Universidad Tecnológica de El Salvador. ISSN 2307-3942. Giusto, Vicente Jorge; and Rolando Iuliano (1989). "Aportes Para Una Historia Socio-economica De El Salvador: Desde La Colonia Hasta La Crisis Del Mercado Comun Centroamericano" (in Spanish). Revista de Historia de América, no. 108: 5–71. Mexico City: Pan ...
Caguax was a Taíno cacique who lived on the island of Borinquén (the Taíno name for Puerto Rico) before and during the Spanish colonization of the Americas.The name of his yucayeque, or Taino village, was Turabo; it comprised the Caguas Valley and surrounding mountains. [1]