#  The Casta Paintings, Theories of Human Diversity, and the Inferiority of the Americas 

 



November 3, 2007

Introduction

Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University

Morning Session

Ilona Katzew, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

"Classifying Colonial Mexico: The Case of Joaquín Antonio de Basarás"

Carlos López Beltrán, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

"Blood and Temperament; Purity and Mestizaje in Castas Society"

Afternoon Session

Joyce Chaplin, Harvard University

"Race in British America: Reality and Appearance"

Magali Carrera, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

"Mapping the Territory of the Body in the Visual Practices of New Spain"

Nicolás Wey-Gómez, Brown University

"Nature, Place, and Political Hierarchy in Columbus's Invention of the Amerindian Tropics"