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(historical) A hierarchical system of race classification created by Spanish elites in Hispanic America during the eighteenth century. quotations
Both of these political developments called attention to family lineage. In the Mexican colonial context, casta took on new meanings, referring to all the people of Mexico who were not of “pure” Spanish heritage.
2012, Mary Jo Maynes, Ann Waltner, The Family: A World History, Oxford University Press