"Casta" is Spanish for caste and these "casta paintings" are incredibly frank documents--unparalleled by anything in our time--of the race-based social hierarchy that existed in colonial Latin America ...

Migration and Immigration in Latin America, and "Race" in Colonial Latin America. "A prominent writer from the U.S. south once commented that the past was not dead, nor was it really past. The same ...

The conquests and subsequent colonial experience have long generated impassioned debate. Many Latin American leaders now ...

Latin America and the Caribbean Thematic Areas of Research: Borders and Borderlands, Comparative and Transnational, Economic History and Capitalism, Imperialism and Colonialism, Iberian Empires, ...

Thanks to one of the largest and best-preserved colonial cores in Latin America, Ecuador's capital was named the very first UNESCO World Heritage site. The city's dramatic setting squeezed between ...