Latin America's Colonial Period Was Far Less Catholic Than It Might Seem Despite the Inquisition's Attempts to Police Religion Eds: This story was supplied by The Conversationfor AP customers.
"Casta" is Spanish for caste and these "casta paintings" are incredibly frank documents--unparalleled by anything in our time--of the race-based social hierarchy that existed in colonial Latin America ...
The fully revised textbook Latin America in Colonial Times presents that story in an engaging but informative new package, revealing how a new civilization and region - Latin America - emerged from ...
Migration and Immigration in Latin America, and "Race" in Colonial Latin America. "A prominent writer from the U.S. south once commented that the past was not dead, nor was it really past. The same ...
Political and social turmoil provide the backdrop to themes of violence and identity for this burgeoning generation of ...