@article{Gómez-Bravo_2020, title={The Origins of ’Raza:’ Racializing Difference in Early Spanish}, url={https://riviste.unimi.it/interfaces/article/view/13376}, DOI={10.13130/interfaces-07-05}, abstractNote={<p>The concept and terminology associated with the Spanish raza developed as a culturally and linguistically situated metaphor during the medieval period and first decades of the early modern period. The early biologization of raza appears after a first conceptual transfer from the textile field reinforced through semantic overlapping transfers from gemology and metallurgy lexicons. A second push toward this biologization came from an administrative language that leveraged existing though unsystematized vocabulary of (marked) selective reproduction. These developments played a key role in the early racialization of difference.</p>}, number={7}, journal={Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures}, author={Gómez-Bravo, Ana M.}, year={2020}, month={Dec.}, pages={64–114} }