The Limits of Racial Domination: Plebeian Society in Colonial Mexico City, 1660–1720

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments This book would not have been possible without the help of many friends, teachers, and colleagues. Colin Palmer introduced me to the study of colonial Mexico and to the issues around which my work revolves . My dissertation advisers, Steve J. Stern and Thomas E. Skidmore, provided indispensable criticism and encouragement at every stage of the research and writing process. Their scholarly ability is matched only by their remarkable sensitivity and patience. During my years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, my fellow graduate students-Jackie Austin, Todd Diacon, Teresa Veccia, Joel Wolfe, and especially Anita Gengergave me good advice, friendship, and vital moral support. Financial support for my research came from a Fulbright-Hays Government Grant for Study Abroad and a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend. While in Mexico, I benefited from discussions with Enrique Florescano, Josefina Zoraida Vazquez, Moises Gonzalez Navarro, and Patricia Seed. I am also greatly indebted to the directors and staffs of the Archivo General de la Nacion, the Archivo Historico de la Ciudad de Mexico, the Archivo Historico del Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, the Archivo de Notarias del Distrito Federal, the Archivo del Tribunal Superior de Justicia del Distrito Federal, and the Archivo de las Indias in Seville for their courteous and efficient aid. In the manuscript's transformation from dissertation to book, I received much valuable criticism from Frederick P. Bowser and an anonymous reviewer for the University of Wisconsin Press. Charlene Mastrostefano, Karla Cinquanta, and Cherrie Guerzon supplied the typing and computer skills I so woefully lack. I also owe thanks to Sheila Berg, for her careful copy editing, and to Raphael Kadushin, my editor at the University of Wisconsin Press, for guiding my manuscript to publication. Any faults that remain, despite the best efforts of these contributors, are strictly my own. xiii The Limits of Racial Domination ...