Gente de razón
Gente de razón (Spanish pronunciation:
Etymology
The term is ultimately derived from Aristotelian and Roman legal ideas about the use of reason in persons and the status of minority before the law. Under Roman law many adults (women, grown men who were not heads of household) were deemed legal minors under the protection of a tutor (usually the pater familias).
Additionally, in the early establishment of New Spain, indigenous peoples who converted and were baptized into the Catholic religion often adopted Christian first names and Spanish last names as signs of outward transformation. Colonial leaders used the term "gente de razón" ("people of reason") to distinguish these converted natives from unconverted ones.[1]
In Spanish America
Since the sixteenth century the
In frontier regions such as
See also
- Detribalization
- Casta
- Emancipados
- Black Ladinos
- Ladino people
- Affranchis
- Creoles of color
- Évolués
- Principalía
- Ilustrado
- Assimilation (French colonialism)
- Hispanic eugenics
- Hispanidad
References
- JSTOR 41171310.
Further reading
- Alonso, Ana María (1995). Thread of Blood: Colonialism, Revolution and Gender on Mexico's Northern Frontier. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. ISBN 978-0-8165-1574-5
- Cope, R. Douglas (1994). The Limits of Racial Domination: Plebeian Society in Colonial Mexico City, 1660-1720. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-14044-1
- Katzew, Ilona (2004). Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth-Century Mexico. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-10971-9
- Miranda, G. (1988). "Racial and cultural dimensions of Gente de Razón status in Spanish and Mexican California". Southern California Quarterly. 70 (3): 265–278. JSTOR 41171310.
- Weber, David J. (1979). New Spain's Far Northern Frontier: Essays on Spain in the American West, 1540-1821. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 978-0-8263-0498-8
- Weber, David J. (1982). The Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846: The American Southwest under Mexico. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 978-0-8263-0602-9
- Weber, David J. (1992). The Spanish Frontier in North America. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-05917-5