Miscegenation in the Atlantic World

April 6, 2002

Morning session

Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University
Introduction

Philip Morgan, Johns Hopkins University
“Interracial Sex in the British Atlantic World in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries”

María-Elena Martínez, University of Southern California
“ 'Purity of Blood' and Mestizaje in New Spain: Problems, Proposals, and Prospects for Future Research”

Jacqueline Peterson, University of Washington, Vancouver
“One From Two? Reflections on Métissage, Métis Identity, and Métis Nation in the Northwest.”

Afternoon session

Joyce Chaplin, Harvard University
“Wise Children: Mixed-‘Race’ Peoples in British America”

Stuart Schwartz, Yale University
“Postcards of Empire: The Disappearance and the Proliferation of Mestizos in Latin America”

Guillaume Boccara, Yale University
“Political Anthropology on the Margins of the New World: Colonial Categories, Anthropological Typologies, and the Production of Difference”