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Estate and Class in a Colonial City: Oaxaca in 1792

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

John K. Chance
Affiliation:
Lawrence University
William B. Taylor
Affiliation:
University of Colorado

Extract

Colonial Latin American societies have generally been presented as systems of estates following forms that were firmly entrenched in Europe before the Spanish conquest in America, an estate being “a legally defined segment of the population of a society which has distinctive rights and duties established by law” (Lenski 1966:77). Lyle McAlister suggests that the American equivalent of a threefold European system of noble—clergy—commoner estates was represented by broad racial classifications: Spaniards—Castas—Indians.

Type
Race and Status
Copyright
Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1977

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