Casta Paintings: A Colonial Caste System Past and Present
Online Event
Casta paintings is an artistic genre depicting miscegenation within Spanish colonies. These eighteenth-century images memorialized the racial classification system that structured colonial society. We will explore how the racial hierarchy represented in Casta paintings remains a shaping power of social order in Latin America.
For more information, please contact Yazmin Gonzalez by email at yazminyg@caltech.edu or visit https://diversity.caltech.edu/events/RSVP.