Podcasts: Professor Martha Few: "Limpieza de Sangre: Race, Religion and Purity of Blood in Colonial Mexico - October 9, 2008
Outline of Podcast
Additional Notes
- The introduction
- Verónica Reyes-Escudero acknowledges the Páginas de la Historia de México: Excerpts from the Morales de Escárcega Collection Exhibition, recognizes donors, grants, staff, volunteers and introduces Dr. Martha Few, associate professor of Latin American history at the University of Arizona.
- The lecture
- Lecture "Limpieza de Sangre: Race, Religion and Purity of Blood in Colonial Mexico" by Dr. Martha Few. Provides an overview of key issues and contrasts of purity of blood laws in Iberian Spain and colonial Mexico including the reconquest period, Muslim occupation, the importance of the marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella, religious and ethnic intolerance and the Edict of 1502. Dr. Few examines a 1767 manuscript from the Morales de Escárcega Collection illustrating the elaborate family genealogy and how the practice of limpieza de sangre worked for the requestors mentioned in this document.
- Questions and answers
- Questions from the audience answered by Dr. Martha Few.
