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Bound Lives: Africans, Indians, and the Making of Race in Colonial Peru

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Bound Lives: Africans, Indians, and the Making of Race in Colonial Peru - O'Toole, Rachel Sarah
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Bound Lives chronicles the lived experience of race relations in northern coastal Peru during the colonial era. Rachel Sarah O'Toole examines how Andeans and Africans negotiated and employed casta, and in doing so, constructed these racial categories. This study highlights the tenuous interactions of colonial authorities, indigenous communities, and enslaved populations and shows how the interplay between colonial law and daily practice shaped the nature of colonialism and slavery. Winner of the 2013 Peroe Flora ...

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Bound Lives: Africans, Indians, and the Making of Race in Colonial Peru 2012, University of Pittsburgh Press, PIttsburgh

ISBN-13: 9780822961932

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