Genealogical Fictions - by María Elena Martínez (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><i>Genealogical Fictions</i> examines how the state, church, Inquisition, and other institutions in colonial Mexico used the Spanish notion of <i>limpieza de sangre</i> (purity of blood) over time and how the concept's enduring religious, genealogical, and gendered meanings came to shape the region's patriotic and racial ideologies.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>Genealogical Fictions</i> examines how the state, church, Inquisition, and other institutions in colonial Mexico used the Spanish notion of <i>limpieza de sangre</i> (purity of blood) over time and how the concept's enduring religious, genealogical, and gendered meanings came to shape the region's patriotic and racial ideologies.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>Genealogical Fictions</i> is the first serious treatment in English of the origins of the <i>sistema de castas</i> and racial ideology in colonial Mexico. It problematizes unquestioned assumptions about <i>limpieza de sangre</i>--purity of blood--the foundation of the <i>sistema de castas</i>, through a reconstruction of the concept's transformations from its origins in early modern Spain to its adaptations in colonial Mexico. Martinez also has much to say about the development of Mexican society in the seventeenth century, a largely neglected period that is only now beginning to attract the attention of contemporary historians. This is an important and original work and a first-rate addition to the existing literature.--Susan Deans-Smith<br><br>This book provides detailed information about how ideas and information circulated across the Atlantic. Throughout the text, Martinez uses primary documents judiciously and well; particularly fascinating are the descriptions of the processing of probanzas in both local and transatlantic contexts.<br><br>This important and meticulously researched work takes on the historiography that argues that the modern Western conception of race had its origins in nineteenth-century scientific constructions of race as a biological category . . . This is an engaging and important work that is sure to attract the attention of historians and scholars from other fields working on issues of race, religion, gender, and colonial empires in Latin America, Europe, and the Atlantic World.--Martha Few "<i>Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe</i>"<br><br>Through a persuasive analysis of a vast array of archival and published sources, [Martinez] adds depth and complexity to our understanding of religious, cultural, and social framework and of the tensions and contradictions the fiction of limpieza de sangre created in its Mexican settings . . . Martinez's tour de force gives a new meaning to an important subject not seriously addressed previously and should be of great interest to scholars and students.--<i>The Americas</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>María Elena Martínez is Associate Professor of History and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.
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