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<p> <b><i>Casta</i></b>  is a term which means "<a href="page.php?w=Lineage_%28anthropology%29">lineage</a>" in Spanish and Portuguese and has historically been used as a racial and social identifier. In the context of the <a href="page.php?w=Spanish_America">Spanish Empire in the Americas</a>, the term also refers to a now-discredited 20th-century theoretical framework which postulated that colonial society operated under a hierarchical race-based "<a href="page.php?w=caste_system">caste system</a>". From the outset, colonial Spanish America resulted</p><p>
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