The Origins of 'Raza:' Racializing Difference in Early Spanish
The concept and terminology associated with the Spanish raza developed as a culturally and linguistically situated metaphor during the medieval period and first decades of the early modern period. The early biologization of raza appears after a first conceptual transfer from the textile field reinfo...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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University of Milan
2020-12-01
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| Series: | Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures |
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| Online Access: | https://riviste.unimi.it/interfaces/article/view/13376 |
| Summary: | The concept and terminology associated with the Spanish raza developed as a culturally and linguistically situated metaphor during the medieval period and first decades of the early modern period. The early biologization of raza appears after a first conceptual transfer from the textile field reinforced through semantic overlapping transfers from gemology and metallurgy lexicons. A second push toward this biologization came from an administrative language that leveraged existing though unsystematized vocabulary of (marked) selective reproduction. These developments played a key role in the early racialization of difference. |
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| ISSN: | 2421-5503 |