John K. Chance

Estate and Class in a Colonial City: Oaxaca in 1792

Colonial Latin American societies have generally been presented as systems of estates following forms that were firmly entrenched in Europe before the Spanish conquest in America, an estate being “a legally defined segment of the population of a society which has distinctive rights and duties established by law” (Lenski 1966:77). Lyle McAlister suggests that the American equivalent of a threefold European system of noble—clergy—commoner estates was represented by broad racial classifications: Spaniards—Castas—Indians.

Latin American urbanization

Preface 1. The city in history 2. Why people move 3. Who moves from where: selectivity and migration 4. Return migration, brokerage, and effects on the community 5. Migrant adaptation: kinship, networks, and small groups 6. The urban class structure 7. Voluntary associations 8. Housing, poverty, and politics 9. International migration Conclusion Notes References Index.

In search of zapotec culture

Joseph W. Whitecotton. The Zapotecs: Princes, Priests and Peasants. Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1977. xiv + 338 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, appendix, bibliography, and index.

Race and class in colonial Oaxaca

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