In 18th-century Mexico, casta paintings were all the rage, as the bloodlines of Spanish colonizers and of the colonized indigenous, black and mixed-race populations mingled and American-born Spaniards ...

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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Masked Mexican rebel leader Subcomandante Marcos, wearing a purple three-piece suit, is paired with Britney Spears in a Wonder Woman costume. Their child is a tiny albino Marcos, ...

In eighteenth-century Mexico, casta paintings were all the rage, as the bloodlines of Spanish colonizers and of the colonized indigenous, black and mixed-race populations mingled and American-born ...

The “Casta Paintings” of Nancy Friedemann-Sanchez, on view at the Lux Center for the Arts, turn that old concept upside-down, looking at the classifications through a lens informed by feminism and ...