Question

How were castas paintings used to create order and stability in a society?

Answer 1

Indigenous peoples who chose to live outside “civilized” social norms and were not Christian were labeled mecos, or barbarians. Casta paintings convey the perception that the more European you are, the closer to the top of the social and racial hierarchy you belong.

Sistema de Castas (1500s-ca. 1829) Sistema de Castas (or Society of Castes) was a porous racial classification system in colonial New Spain (present-day Mexico) were the castas paintings

were started.

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