In the case of Doña Catalina due to her identification with a lineage of the noble class and honor, she belongs to a higher social group. For what we can infer, she probably was also a mestiza. We really don´t know. Especially, due to the reaction of her brother, and the threat to the family honor that her actions represented. In fact, an interesting aspect of her story is that her calidad” was more than a sociaracial label on her lineage; it was a type of social performance which nature was defined by a constant change. In the case of Francisco Suarez, he represents the individual that uses different camouflage of identity, such as passing "through literate communication". (Rappaport, 31). In other words, he was able to transit from one racial category to another before he met Doña Catalina due to a passing camouflage (calidad) of his
In the case of Doña Catalina due to her identification with a lineage of the noble class and honor, she belongs to a higher social group. For what we can infer, she probably was also a mestiza. We really don´t know. Especially, due to the reaction of her brother, and the threat to the family honor that her actions represented. In fact, an interesting aspect of her story is that her calidad” was more than a sociaracial label on her lineage; it was a type of social performance which nature was defined by a constant change. In the case of Francisco Suarez, he represents the individual that uses different camouflage of identity, such as passing "through literate communication". (Rappaport, 31). In other words, he was able to transit from one racial category to another before he met Doña Catalina due to a passing camouflage (calidad) of his