Spanish-American Studies: The Colonial Period

Medical Fees in the Colonial Period *

A comparison of physicians' fees in the Colonial period with those of today should reveal much of interest and value. Numerous daybooks are available establishing the sums paid to the physician in the currency of the time, but obviously direct comparisons cannot be made because of the change in the purchasing value of the units. Consultation with historians, sociologists, and economists has ind...

Tense and tender ties: the politics of comparison in North American history and (post) colonial studies.

The colonial context of Filipino American immigrants' psychological experiences.

Because of the long colonial history of Filipinos and the highly Americanized climate of postcolonial Philippines, many scholars from various disciplines have speculated that colonialism and its legacies may play major roles in Filipino emigration to the United States. However, there are no known empirical studies in psychology that specifically investigate whether colonialism and its effects h...

Colonial mentality: a review and recommendation for Filipino American psychology.

Colonial mentality is a term used widely by ethnic studies scholars and by the Filipino American community to refer to a form of internalized oppression among Filipinos and Filipino Americans. The authors propose that colonial mentality is a construct that is central to the understanding of the psychology of contemporary Filipino Americans. Drawing on larger scholarship from postcolonial studie...

The Appropriation of Native Status: Forming and Reforming Insiders and Outsiders in the Spanish Colonial World

This article examines the different meanings of native status in Spanish America. It argues that the classification of Indigenous peoples as »natives« was not meant to reflect a reality of indigeneity as many have assumed, but instead was geared towards attributing them with a particular legal status, which in Peninsular Spain was reserved to members of the political community (naturales). It o...