‘Pretos’ and ‘Pardos’ between the Cross and the Sword: Racial Categories in Seventeenth Century Brazil
Mixing between Europeans and Africans in the Portuguese empire produced hierarchical categories for racial gradations during the seventeenth century. During this period the categories ‘mulato’ and ‘pardo’ were included in the regulations for Purity of Blood (Estatutos de Pureza de Sangue), which...
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| Language: | English |
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CEDLA
2006-04-01
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| Series: | European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies |
| Online Access: | http://www.erlacs.org/articles/10.18352/erlacs.9654/ |