Mexico: “Pure And Noble Indians, Untainted By Inferior Idolatrous Races”: Native Elites And ...

Mexico: “Pure And Noble Indians, Untainted By Inferior Idolatrous Races”: Native Elites And The Discourse Of Blood Purity In Late Colonial Mexico Peter B. Villella, 2011   As sixteenth-century Spaniards constructed their global empire, they carried with them the racial-religious concept of “limpieza de sangre,” or blood purity, which restricted marginalized communities from exercising prestige and authority. However, the complex demographic arena of early modern America, so different from...

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