The inhabitants’ “qualities” and the mestizo family’s formation in colonial Minas Gerais (1720-1780)

Authors

  • Rangel Cerceau Netto Centro Universitário de Belo Horizonte UNIBH

Abstract

The article examines how people of different “qualities” (white, black, creole,mestizo, mulatto, “pardo”, “cabra”, and “mamaluco”) and social and legal conditions(freeman, freedman and slave) formed the mestizo family and how it was establishedas a very common and viable alternative in colonial Minas Gerais, specifically in Riodas Velhas and Serro Frio Counties. Some attempted to demonstrate how concubinagerelations, guided by the social subjects’ differences and inequalities, allowed the formationof mixed families and innovative situations capable of transforming existing social andlegal hierarchies.

Keywords: mestizo family, colonial mixtures, “qualities”, social and legal conditions.

Author Biography

Rangel Cerceau Netto, Centro Universitário de Belo Horizonte UNIBH

Professor do Centro Universitário de Belo Horizonte - Unibh, instituição na qual possui graduação (2002). Doutor (2013) e Mestre (2006) em História Social da Cultura Pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Pela mesma instituição possui especialização em História da Cultura e da Arte (2004). Pesquisador convidado da Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri de 2005 a 2007. Pesquisador Associado ao Centro de Estudos sobre a Presença Africana no Mundo Moderno - CEPAMM / UFMG. Membro do Grupo de pesquisa sobre Estudos Africanos e História do Atlântico Negro - UFMG. Tem Experiência na área de História, com ênfase em Metodologia de Pesquisa, História do Brasil Colônia e Império, História da América Colonial, politica de Preservação do Patrimônio Cultural atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: historiografia, Família, Ilegitimidade, mestiçagem, religiosidade.

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Published

2015-05-11

Issue

Vol. 19 No. 1 (2015): January/April

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