Questions for analysis of Boyer and Spurling documents

• · “Scandal at the Church,” p. 216-223.
• · “Don Valdivieso Protests the Marriage of his Daughter,” p224-235.
• · “The Most Vile Atrocities,” p269-278

Is there a pattern of masculine and feminine stereotypes in these documents? If so, describe it. Do these documents express ethnic/racial stereotypes? If so, describe them.

Do these ethnic and gender stereotypes overlap or reinforce each other? How?

Do all the different people appearing in the documents share these different associations? Explain.

Summary of the above: In what ways can you detect that ideas about gender were connected to ideas about race in colonial Latin American society? Be prepared to discuss specific examples.

What types of power and what types of restrictions do men, women, demonstrate in these documents? How does their individual status as members of the lower classes and/or indigenous, African, or mixed-race people affect this power or these restrictions?

In these documents, do people in the lower social classes in colonial Latin America accept or fight the ideologies of race and gender that elite groups advanced?