Reading of Pedro de Ayarza: The Purchase of Whiteness - Ann Twinam  1. Explain the process of how and why “whiteness” could be purchased to alter ones rank and heritage in Latin America?

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Reading of Pedro de Ayarza: The Purchase of Whiteness - Ann Twinam 

1. Explain the process of how and why “whiteness” could be purchased to alter ones rank and heritage in Latin America?

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Ann Twinam's  Purchasing Whiteness: Pardos, Mulattos, and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish Indies explores the thoughts and ideologies of colonial Latin America and its concept of identity. Twinam identified this process as "gracias al sacar" - a process through which Latinos, or mulattos and pardons associated themselves with the whites. Let us describe this process in details below. 

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