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Indians and Mestizos in the Lettered City: Reshaping Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Political Culture in Colonial Peru

Indians and Mestizos in the Lettered City: Reshaping Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Political Culture in Colonial Peru

Duenas, Alcira

Paperback

Native American HistoryLiterary CriticismSouth American History

ISBN10: 1607329395
ISBN13: 9781607329398
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: Jul 1 2019
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Through newly unearthed texts virtually unknown in Andean studies, Indians and Mestizos in the Lettered City highlights the Andean intellectual tradition of writing in their long-term struggle for social empowerment and questions the previous understanding of the lettered city as a privileged space populated solely by colonial elites. Rarely acknowledged in studies of resistance to colonial rule, these writings challenged colonial hierarchies and ethnic discrimination in attempts to redefine the Andean role in colonial society.

Scholars have long assumed that Spanish rule remained largely undisputed in Peru between the 1570s and 1780s, but educated elite Indians and mestizos challenged the legitimacy of Spanish rule, criticized colonial injustice and exclusion, and articulated the ideas that would later be embraced in the Great Rebellion in 1781. Their movement extended across the Atlantic as the scholars visited the seat of the Spanish empire to negotiate with the king and his advisors for social reform, lobbied diverse networks of supporters in Madrid and Peru, and struggled for admission to religious orders, schools and universities, and positions in ecclesiastic and civil administration.

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