Casta paintings marked visibly white-passing mixed women with a black dot to signal blackness

Evidence

It is revealing, then, that the mark of blackness in Casta paintings is often metaphorically literalized. Many mixed women whose skin tone is painted as especially white will have a large dark black dot planted at the temple, a visible reminder of the social bruise of blackness even where skin color has been so toned down as seemingly to enable evasiveness of the racial hold. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1111 (#expands, via linked claim)

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Broader Connections

• Casta paintings literally marked near-white women with a black dot at the temple #expands (0.97) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1111