One of the casta paintings that I looked at was casta painting number six, titles Morisco con Espanol Chico. In the painting, we have a man from the Spanish descent and a white woman who has created a child identified as a child from a Spanish descent. The father does have darker skin, and the mother has fairly white skin, and their child has darker skin. The father is wearing clothing that would tie him with the upper-class levels; he's wearing a coat with designs. He is also carrying a chicken; one would assume that he may have some land for his family. The wife is fully clothed in a dress; she has herself very covered up; even her hair and part of her face is covered up. Not all women in the paintings are dressed as nicely as the wife in the paintings. Their child is wearing plain clothes; this can show that he has the chance to be a child and play, or he's seen as a lower class compared to his parents. He has to wear clothing that matches the class attached to the skin color you are born with. The novel does support the hierarchy of skin color. The various shades of a person's skin can and will show their value to those around them.
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