Caste War
clase, all topics raised here, intersect, but are also different. We cannot conflate these in practice, because although closely related, they meant different things, and it is important to be precise about them. Otherwise, we risk reducing these, and other Latin American experiences, to processes more historically linked to US experiences. The scholarship on Afro-Mexicans, for its part, has depicted during the last decades a complex picture of the identities of negros, mulatos, moriscos, lobos, chinos, pardos, and morenos in New Spain. Gharala adds one more element to this multifaceted portrait: that of the tributary subject.