The Casta Paintings and My Mother’s Quest

by Sabrina Cadiz, Elizabeth Jimenez Fique, and Sydney Tischler Casta paintings, like the one depicted above, date back to the mid 1700s in Mexico, where they were used as visual “guides” to the names and attributes of offspring of interracial couples. Usually in a series of 16 paintings, each image featured a mother, a father […]

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