Chapter Questions
What do the authors of these selections seem to think about the white elites of the colonies? Are there similarities in the ways that Juan and Ulloa and Carrío describe the mixed population of Quito and the slave population of Córdoba?
How do these depictions of mestizos and other mixtures compare with the image of the family represented in the painting of castas on page 490 ?
What does the humiliation of the mixed-race woman in Córdoba tell us about ideas of race and class in this Spanish colony?