Norah L. A. Gharala is an assistant professor of world history at Georgian Court University in Lakewood, New Jersey.

An important study of the internal workings of the late eighteenth-century Spanish viceroyalties, exposing how racial specificity faded away in light of more pressing concerns regarding collecting as much tribute as possible. This book provides new perspectives on the history of race and class, demonstrating that physiognomy and phenotype did not overtake lineage."" - Nicole von Germeten, author of Black Blood Brothers: Confraternities and Social Mobility for Afro-Mexicans and Violent Delights, Violent Ends: Sex, Race, and Honor in Colonial Cartagena de Indias

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Tribute and Calidad in the Spanish EmpireChapter 2. Revitalization and Reaction: Afromexican Tribute before 1763Chapter 3. Sons of Hidalgos or Ringleaders of the Indians? Defining Tributary GenealogiesChapter 4. Imperial Knowledge and the Expansion of TributeChapter 5. Mapping Community on the Afromexican Tribute RegisterChapter 6. Genealogy and Disputed Tributary StatusConclusionNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex

Norah L. A. Gharala is an assistant professor of world history at Georgian Court University in Lakewood, New Jersey.

An important study of the internal workings of the late eighteenth-century Spanish viceroyalties, exposing how racial specificity faded away in light of more pressing concerns regarding collecting as much tribute as possible. This book provides new perspectives on the history of race and class, demonstrating that physiognomy and phenotype did not overtake lineage."" - Nicole von Germeten, author of Black Blood Brothers: Confraternities and Social Mobility for Afro-Mexicans and Violent Delights, Violent Ends: Sex, Race, and Honor in Colonial Cartagena de Indias

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Tribute and Calidad in the Spanish EmpireChapter 2. Revitalization and Reaction: Afromexican Tribute before 1763Chapter 3. Sons of Hidalgos or Ringleaders of the Indians? Defining Tributary GenealogiesChapter 4. Imperial Knowledge and the Expansion of TributeChapter 5. Mapping Community on the Afromexican Tribute RegisterChapter 6. Genealogy and Disputed Tributary StatusConclusionNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex