Casta

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title: Casta
text: Casta is a term which means "lineage" in Spanish and Portuguese and has historically been used as a racial and social identifier. In the context of the Spanish Empire in the Americas, the term also refers to a now-discredited 20th-century theoretical framework which postulated that colonial society operated under a hierarchical race-based "caste system". From the outset, colonial Spanish America resulted in widespread intermarriage: unions of Spaniards (españoles), indigenous people (indios), an
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description: Mixed-race people of Spanish colonial regions in the 17th and 18th centuries
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casta
date created: 2004-10-15T07:20:20Z
date modified: 2024-09-07T16:32:42Z
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image: {"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Casta_painting_all.jpg","width":1419,"height":2000}
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