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CASTA - A casta (Spanish: [kasta]) was a term to describe mixed-race individuals in Spanish America, resulting from unions of European whites (españoles), A...
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| Possible Crossword Clues |
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| ___ spell on |
| ___ spell over |
| Words before spell, shadow or wide net |
| Words before spell or shadow |
| Words before "spell" or "wide net" |
| -- wide net |
| -- pall over |
| Geographic Matches |
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| Casta, Piaui, BRAZIL |
| Casta, Lima, PERU |
| Casta, Trnava, SLOVAKIA (Slovak Republic) |
| Casta, Afar, ETHIOPIA |
| Casta, A5, FRANCE |
| Casta, Liguria, ITALY |
| Casta description |
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| A casta (Spanish: [kasta]) was a term to describe mixed-race individuals in Spanish America, resulting from unions of European whites (españoles), Amerindians (indios), and Africans (negros). Racial categories had legal and social consequences, since racial status was an organizing principle of Spanish colonial rule. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, European elites created a complex hierarchical system of race classification. The sistema de castas or the sociedad de castas was used in the 17th and 18th century in Spanish America and Spanish Philippines to describe as a whole and formally socially rank the mixed-race people who were born during the post-Conquest period. The process of mixing ancestries in the union of people of different races was known as mestizaje (Portuguese: mestiçagem [metisaj], [mtisaj]). In Spanish colonial law, mixed-race castas were classified as part of the república de españoles and not the república de indios, which set Amerindians outside t |