in 18th-century Mexico they also elaborated relations of social power and control. Bearing titles such as Espanol con India sale Mulato (Spaniard with Black makes Mulatto), casta paintings display ...

These cuadros de castas were an attempt to impose racial and socioeconomic categories on Mexico’s increasingly heterogeneous ...

Casta paintings originate from the Spanish American viceroyalty of Mexico in the 18th Century. They depict interracial mixing resulting from the widespread marriage between Spanish settlers ...