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Image reproduced from María Concepción García Sáiz, Las Castas Mexicanas
(Olivetti, 1989), from an image at Breamore House, London.
Miscegenation in the Atlantic World, 1500-1825
April 6, 2002
Harvard University

A Workshop of
The International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World



Program

9:00-9:30 a.m. Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University
Introduction

9:30-10:15 a.m.: Philip Morgan, Johns Hopkins University
“Interracial Sex in the British Atlantic World in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries”

10:45-11:30 a.m. María-Elena Martínez, University of Southern California
“ 'Purity of Blood' and Mestizaje in New Spain: Problems, Proposals, and Prospects for Future Research”

12:00-12:45 p.m. Jacqueline Peterson, University of Washington, Vancouver
“One From Two? Reflections on Métissage, Métis Identity, and Métis Nation in the Northwest.”

12:45-2:00 p.m. Lunch

2:00-2:45 p.m. Joyce Chaplin, Harvard University
“Wise Children: Mixed-‘Race’ Peoples in British America”

3:15-4:00 p.m. Stuart Schwartz, Yale University
“Postcards of Empire: The Disappearance and the Proliferation of Mestizos in Latin America”

4:30-5:15 p.m. Guillaume Boccara, Yale University
“Political Anthropology on the Margins of the New World: Colonial Categories, Anthropological Typologies, and the Production of Difference”

5:30-7:00 p.m. Reception
Great Space Robinson Hall


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