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Depiction of Racial Mixtures "De Español y Torna atras, tente en el ayre" ["Spanish father and throwback mother, undecided"] Miguel Cabrera, 1763 Oil on canvas; 52 x 39 3/4 in. Private Collection One way of keeping social order was the system known as castas, in which people were classified according to the purity or mixture of their blood lines. |