Casta Painting: Art, Race and Identity in Colonial Mexico (HI972)

Module Leader
Rebecca Earle
Aims
This module explores the distinctive vision of colonial Mexico purveyed via the artistic genre
known as the casta painting. Casta paintings depict the outcomes of different types of inter-ethnic
mixing, and often come in series of 16, showing many different family groups. They are quite
remarkable. Consider, for example, Jos de Alcbar's painting showing a family group consisting, we
are told in the helpful label, of a Black father, and Indian mother and their 'Wolf' son:

Jos de Alcbar, De Negro y De India Sale Lovo

Casta paintings can be seen as attempts at cataloguing the varied inhabitants of Spains
colonial universe. They thus offer a visual taxonomy of colonial space. At the same time, they have
been read as statements of local pride, and usually include a wealth of details about local customs and
habits. In addition, they are rich and complex documents relating to the material culture of colonial
Spanish America. In Alcbar's painting reproduced above we notice not only the domestic strife but
also the beautiful china (which is endangered by the parental row) and food items such as the headless
chicken. How are we to interpret and understand such images?
The module will introduce students to this artistic genre, and will explore different ways of interpreting
these multi-valent images. Its educational aims, therefore, are to help students consider how to read
artistic works produced in a colonial setting, how to use casta paintings as a body of source material,
and how to explore the relationship between visual and textual depictions of colonial space.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this module you will be able to:
Assess the historiographic treatment of race in colonial Mexico.
Understand and evaluate the scholarly literature on the emergence of creole patriotism in
eighteenth-century Mexico
Show that you have improved your research and presentation skills
Recognise and evaluate the different ways in which scholars in different disciplines have

interpreted casta paintings

Discuss the challenges posed by the use of casta paintings as a historical source.
Apply your scholarly and theoretical knowledge to the analysis of a specific casta painting

Assessment
1 assessed essay of 5,000 words. You may also write an unassessed essay of 2,500 words. This essay
is optional but if you choose to write it you should submit it to me by the end of week 7.
Syllabus
week 1: Introduction
week 2: Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico
week 3: Men and Women
week 4: Materialities
week 5: Families
week 6: Reading Week
week 7: Trip to Breamore House
week 8: Student presentations.
week 9: Student presentations
week 10: Conclusions: Race, Class and the Colonial Imagination
Seminar Readings
week 1: Introduction
What are casta paintings?
Readings:
Peruse the illustrations in one of the following books:
Artes de Mxico: La pintura de castas, no. 8 (1990).
Carrera, Magali, Imagining Identity in New Spain: Race, Lineage, and the Colonial Body in
Portraiture and Casta Paintings, University of Texas Press (Austin, 2003).
Garca Siz, Mara Concepcin, Las castas mexicanas. Un gnero pictrico americano, Olivetti
(Milan, 1989).
Katzew, Ilona, Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth-century Mexico, Yale University Press
(New Haven, 2004).
Katzew, Ilona, ed., New World Orders. Casta Painting and Colonial Latin America, Americas Society
(New York, 1996).
Skim the chapters on colonial Spanish America in one of the following:
Bakewell, Peter, A History of Latin America (Blackwell, 1997).
Bethell, Leslie (ed.), Colonial Spanish America (Cambridge University Press, 1987).
Lockhart, James and Stuart Schwartz, Early Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 1983).
Williamson, Edwin, The Penguin History of Latin America (Penguin, 1992).
week 2: Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico
How well do the racial taxonomies of casta paintings reflect the lived experience of eighteenth-century
Mexicans? Do you agree with Susan Kellogg that these paintings help legitimise mestizaje by making
it seem part of everyday life?
Readings:
Bourbon Society
Cope, R. Douglas, The Limits of Racial Domination: Plebeian Society in Colonial Mexico City, 16601720, University of Wisconsin Press (Madison, 1994).
Vinson III, Ben, Studying Race from the Margins: The Forgotten CastesLobos, Moriscos,
Coyotes, Moros, and Chinos in the Colonial Mexican Caste System, International Seminar
on the History of the Atlantic World (Harvard University, 2000).
Viqueira Albn, Juan Pedro, Propriety and Permissiveness in Bourbon Mexico, trans. Sonya LipsettRivera and Sergio Rivera Ayala, SR Books (Wilmington, 1999).
Casta Paintings
Deans-Smith, Susan, Creating the Colonial Subject: Casta Paintings, Collectors, and Critics in
Eighteenth-Century Mexico and Spain, Colonial Latin American Review 14:2 (2005)
Katzew, Ilona, ed., New World Orders. Casta Painting and Colonial Latin America, Americas Society

(New York, 1996).

Kellogg, Susan, Depicting Mestizaje: Gendered Images of Ethnorace in Colonial Mexican Texts,
Journal of Women's History, Volume 12, Number 3 (2000), pp. 69-92.
week 3: Men and Women
What sorts of intimate relationships do casta paintings depict? What role does violence play in
structuring gender norms?
Readings:
Marriage and Sexualities
Boyer, Richard, Lives of the Bigamists: Marriage, Family, and Community in Colonial Mexico
(Albuquerque, 1995).
Gonzalbo Aizpuro, Pilar, Las mujeres en la Nueva Espaa: Educacin y vida cotidiana (Mexico,
1987).
Johnson, Lyman and Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, eds., Faces of Honor: Sex, Shame and Violence in Colonial
Latin America, University of New Mexico Press (Albuquerque, 1998).
Lavrin, Asuncin, ed. Sexuality and Marriage in Colonial Latin America (Lincoln, 1989).
Lipsett-Rivera, Sonya, The Intersection of Rape and Marriage in Late-Colonial and Early National
Mexico, Colonial Latin American Review, vol. 6:4 (1997).
McCaa, Robert, Marriageways in Mexico and Spain, 1500-1900, Continuity and Change, vol. 9
(1994), pp. 11-43.
Schwaller, Robert C., Mulata, Hija de Negro y India: Afro-Indigenous Mulatos in Early Colonial
Mexico, Journal of Social History (spring 2011).
Seed, Patricia, To Love, Honour and Obey in Colonial Mexico: Conflicts over Marriage Choice, 15741821, (Stanford, 1988)
Stern, Steve, The Secret History of Gender: Women, Men and Power in Late Colonial Mexico (Chapel
Hill, 1996).
Twinam, Ann, Public Lives, Private Secrets. Gender, Honor, Sexuality, and Illegitimacy in Colonial
Spanish America, Stanford University Press (Stanford, 1999).
Casta paintings
Kellogg, Susan, Depicting Mestizaje: Gendered Images of Ethnorace in Colonial Mexican Texts,
Journal of Women's History, Volume 12, Number 3 (2000), pp. 69-92.
week 4: Materialities
How should we interpret the abundant material culture depicted in casta paintings? What is the
importance of all that food?
Readings:
Commodities and Identities
Bauer, Arnold, Goods, Power, History: Latin Americas Material Culture, Cambridge University Press
(Cambridge, 2001).
Earle, Rebecca, Two Pairs of Pink Satin Shoes!!: Clothing, Race and Identity in the Americas, 17 th19th Centuries, History Workshop Journal, issue 52 (2001), pp. 175-95.
Earle, Rebecca, Consumption and Excess in Colonial and Early Independent Spanish America,
Imported Modernity in Post-Colonial State-Formation: The Appropriation of Political,
Educational and Cultural Models in Nineteenth-Century Latin America, eds. Marcelo Caruso and
Eugenia Roldn Vera, Peter Lang (Frankfurt am Main, 2007), pp. 341-61.
Earle, Rebecca, Clothing and Ethnicity in Colonial Spanish America, The Fashion History Reader:
Global Perspectives, eds. Giorgio Riello and Peter McNeill, Routledge (London, 2010), pp. 3835.
Casta paintings
Fisher, Abby Sue, Mestizaje and the Cuadros de Casta: Visual Representation of Race, Status, and
Dress in Eighteenth Century Mexico, D.Phil, University of Minnesota, 1992
Katzew, Ilona, Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth-century Mexico, Yale University Press
(New Haven, 2004).
Scott, Nina, Measuring Ingredients: Food and Domesticity in Mexican Casta Paintings,
Gastronomica, Winter 2005, Vol. 5, No. 1, Pages 7079.

week 5: Families
To what extent to casta paintings engage with Enlightenment debates about domesticity and the
family? What images of paternity and maternity do they promote?
Readings:
Families
Fernndez de Lizardi, Jos Joaquin, The Mangy Parrot: The Life And Times Of Periquillo Sarniento
Written By Himself For His Children, trans. David Frey, Hackett (2005).
Premo, Bianca, Children of the Father King: Youth, Authority, & Legal Minority in Colonial Lima,
University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill, 2005), chaps. 5 and 6
Casta paintings
Lpez Beltrn, Carlos, Hippocratic Bodies: Temperament and Castas in Spanish America (15701820, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 8:2 (2007).
Loren, Diana DiPaolo, Corporeal Concerns: Eighteenth-Century Casta Paintings and Colonial Bodies
in Spanish Texas, Historical Archaeology, Vol. 41, No. 1: Between Art & Artifact (2007), pp.
23-36.
week 6: Reading Week
week 7: Trip to Breamore House (Hampshire) to view collection of casta paintings
week 8: Student presentations.
Please present an analysis of a specific casta painting.
week 9: Student presentations, cont.
week 10: Conclusions: Race, Class and the Colonial Imagination
What accounts of the current popularity of casta paintings?
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