| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.2

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Race, Caste, and Status: Indians in Colonial Spanish America. By Robert H. Jackson. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999. x, 151 pp. Cloth, $40.00, isbn 0-8263-2108-9. Paper, $18.95, isbn 0-8263-1894-0.)

This book addresses the meaning of Indian status in the context of the Spanish sistema de castas, the colonial hierarchy of racial and ethnic categories, in two widely different regions of Latin America. The core of the Spanish colonies is represented by four rural communities in the Valle Bajo of Cochabamba, Bolivia, while the periphery is represented by two areas of northern Mexico where Jesuit and Franciscan missions were important: Baja California and the Pimería Alta of Sonora. The data for all regions come primarily from baptismal and marriage records, censuses, and, in the Bolivian case, tribute records. The book covers a broad sweep of time, but the emphasis is on the eighteenth century. . . .

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