Race and blood in the Iberian world / edited by Max S. Hering Torres, María Elena Martínez, David Nirenberg.

Zürich ; Berlin : Lit, [2012], ©2012.

ii, 203 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Purity of blood : problems of interpretation / Max S. Hering Torres -- Race and caste : other words and other worlds / María Eugenia Chaves -- Pauline Christianity and Jewish "race" : the case of João Baptista D'Este / David Graizbord -- "Moro de linaje y nación" : religious identity, race and status in New Granada / Karoline P. Cook -- Between "casta" and "raza" : the example of colonial Mexico / Laura A. Lewis -- Purity of blood and caste : identity narratives among early modern Goan elites / Ângela Barreto Xavier -- Beyond race : exclusion in early modern Spain and Spanish America / Tamar Herzog -- Race in retrospect : thinking with history in nineteenth-century Cuba / David Sartorius -- "Blood work" : fables of racial identity and modern science / Thomas C. Holt.

Includes bibliographical references.