Despite being inextricably linked to Indian tradition, the modern understanding and usage of the word “caste” came through ...

These greatest hits could position LACMA as a major destination for Spanish Colonial art ... in the catalog about the taxonomizing casta (or caste) portraits on view. “In the end it’s both.” ...

Walter Benjamin's dictum that every work of art is also a work of barbarism comes to mind with "New World Orders," an exhibition of Spanish colonial casta paintings currently on display at the ...

After its 1898 defeat in the Spanish-American War, Spain lost its possessions in the Western Hemisphere and ceased to be a major European colonial ... the dominant white caste in American society.

The diplomatic spat threatens to cast a pall over Sheinbaum's inauguration in Mexico City, once the seat of Spain's vast colonial holdings in the Americas after Spanish invaders and their native ...

In New Orleans, we often wrap ourselves in the pride of the old: Old traditions, old recipes, old songs, old stories our mammas told us and old buildings. We love old buildings. But how old is old ...