{"id":606,"date":"2016-07-28T20:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T20:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/?page_id=606"},"modified":"2021-08-01T15:49:39","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T15:49:39","slug":"casta-painting","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/casta-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Casta Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_607\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-607\" class=\"wp-image-607 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/Casta_painting_all-1000x1409.jpg\" alt=\"Excerpt from the casta paintings describing the many different races of Spanish America. The castas depicted are Mestizo, Castizo, Espanol, Mulato, Morisco, Chino, Salta atras, Lobo, Cribaro, Albarazado, Canbuso, Sanbaigo, Capamulato, Tenteen el Aire, Noteentiendo, Tornatraz\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1409\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/Casta_painting_all-1000x1409.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/Casta_painting_all-250x352.jpg 250w, http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/Casta_painting_all-768x1082.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/Casta_painting_all-500x705.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/Casta_painting_all-624x879.jpg 624w, http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/Casta_painting_all.jpg 1419w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-607\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unknown artist, &#8220;Las Castas,&#8221; Museo Nacional del Virreinato, Tepotzotlan, Mexico, via <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Casta_painting_all.jpg\">Wikimedia<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The elaborate Sistema de Castas revealed one of the less-discussed effects of Spanish conquest: sexual liaisons and their progeny. Casta paintings illustrated the varying degrees of intermixture between colonial subjects, defining them for Spanish officials. Race was less fixed in the Spanish colonies, as some individuals, through legal action or colonial service, \u201cchanged\u201d their race in the colonial records. Though this particular image does not, some casta paintings attributed particular behaviors to different groups, demonstrating how class and race were intertwined.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The elaborate Sistema de Castas revealed one of the less-discussed effects of Spanish conquest: sexual liaisons and their progeny. Casta paintings illustrated the varying degrees of intermixture between colonial subjects, defining them for Spanish officials. Race was less fixed in the Spanish colonies, as some individuals, through legal action or colonial service, \u201cchanged\u201d their race [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-606","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2148,"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/606\/revisions\/2148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}