Gómez-Bravo, Ana (2020) The Origins of 'Raza:' Racializing Difference in Early Spanish. Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures, 7. pp. 64-114. ISSN 2421-5503
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[EN] 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.
| Tipologia del documento: | Articolo in rivista |
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| Parole chiave: | race; raza; racism; blood purity; breed |
| Soggetto: | D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D111 Medieval History P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN0441 Literary History |
| Depositato il: | 21 Ago 2026 21:41 |
| Ultima modifica: | 22 Ago 2026 14:26 |
| URI: | https://www.rmoa.unina.it/id/eprint/8008 |
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