Friday, January 3, 9:30–11:30 a.m.

American Historical Association Annual Meeting Sessions

24. Race to the End of Empire: The Racial Dimensions of Royal Policy in Late Colonial Spanish America

Hilton, Conference Room 4M

Joint session with the Conference on Latin American History

Chair: R. Douglas Cope, Brown University

Papers: "Suckled by their Women": Race, Children, and Bourbon Social Reforms in Lima
Bianca Premo, Emory University

Race and the Limits of Loyalty in Late Colonial Cuba
David Sartorius, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Is Race a "Defect"? Official and Popular Debates over Whitening in Late Colonial Spanish America
Ann Twinam, University of Cincinnati

Comment: Ben Vinson III, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

   

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