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<journal-id>0185-3929</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Relaciones. Estudios de historia y sociedad]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Relac. Estud. hist. soc.]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0185-3929</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[El Colegio de Michoacán]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S0185-39292025000300067</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.24901/rehs.v46i183.1104</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Víctimas, denunciantes, culpables y testigos: mestizos y afrodescendientes en los procesos civiles y criminales del siglo XVIII en la región de Zacatecas]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Victims, accusers, suspects and witnesses: casta people through 18th century civil and criminal trials in the Zacatecas area (New Spain)]]></article-title>
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<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Croguennec]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Soizic]]></given-names>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Université de Caen Normandie  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>France</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>09</month>
<year>2025</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>09</month>
<year>2025</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>46</volume>
<numero>183</numero>
<fpage>67</fpage>
<lpage>89</lpage>
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<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0185-39292025000300067&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0185-39292025000300067&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0185-39292025000300067&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen Si leemos los documentos provenientes de las élites coloniales, las castas eran consideradas como gente mentirosa, violenta, ociosa y potencialmente traidora. Sin embargo, en el caso de la región de Zacatecas en el siglo XVIII, el examen minucioso de los archivos judiciales permite añadir numerosos matices. Pondremos de relieve no solamente las evoluciones de un contexto colonial caracterizado por una racialización creciente, sino también un abanico amplio de figuras y situaciones reveladoras de las relaciones de poder estructurando el mundo zacatecano.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract If we read the documents coming from the colonial elites, the castes were considered as lying, violent, idle and potentially treacherous people. However, in the case of the Zacatecas region in the eighteenth century, a careful examination of the judicial archives allows us to add many nuances. We will highlight not only the evolutions of a colonial context characterized by a growing racialization but also a wide range of figures and situations revealing the power relations structuring the world of Zacatecas.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Zacatecas]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[18th century]]></kwd>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[castes]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[afrodescendant]]></kwd>
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<surname><![CDATA[VIQUEIRA ALBÁN]]></surname>
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