Sunday, January 5, 11:00–1:00 p.m.

American Historical Association Annual Meeting Sessions

149. Blood, "Race," and Lineage in the Early Modern Atlantic World

Palmer House, Private Dining Room 18

Chair: Tamar Herzog, University of Chicago

Papers: Constructions of "Purity" and "Blackness" in Early Colonial Mexico
María-Elena Martínez, University of Southern California

A Jewish Corner of the Sistema de Castas in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam?
Jonathan Schorsch, Emory University

"The Blood of France": "Race" and the "Purity of Blood" in the French Atlantic World
Guillaume Aubert, Williams College

Comment: Steve J. Stern, University of Wisconsin-Madison

   

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