1. Quick Writing Quiz As best as you can remember from the reading for today: – What was the basis of the social hierarchy in New Spain? – Who was at the top? – Include any other details you can recall

2. Casta Paintings Keys to remember: Spanish society at the time of the Conquest was obsessed over race and religion due to the conflict between the Moorish Caliphate and the Xtian Kings between 700 – 1492 Large numbers of Jews had also lived in Spain due to the Muslim Caliph’s protection Part of the Reconquista involved forcing conversions to Xtianity and then preventing “backsliding” (hence the Inquisition, and ham.)

3. Why Casta Paintings? Keys for New Spain  Mestizaje (Mestizo-dom) Patriarchy and gender assumptions Relationship of skin color to power And to the economy – That is, what was the consequence of skin color and lineage in colonial New Spain?

4. The Social Pyramid Peninsulares Criollos --------------------- --- Mestizos --------------------- --- Mulattos, etc Indios Negros All white = Land and Political power White + ? = No land, but urban jobs Non-white = Manual labor & no land

6. El Mestizo

7. De Español y Negra, Mulato, ca. 1760-1770

8. El Mulatto

9. La Coyote

10. El Lobo

11. La Salta-patra

12. Un Albino

13. In sum To what degree was race a conscious thing in Colonial New Spain, and what was its importance?