Making a New World Quotes

“Whether focused on ancestry, visible race, or combinations of the two, systems of ranked difference aimed to separate people into hierarchies of inequality while incorporating them in colonial production, justifying exploitations with claims of essential difference.”
― John Tutino, Making a New World: Founding Capitalism in the Bajío and Spanish North America

“The paradox of capitalism is that its predations may destabilize its own dynamism. Capitalist persistence requires institutions that organize inequities and mediate conflicts in ways that limit and legitimate predations before they provoke destabilization.”
― John Tutino, Making a New World: Founding Capitalism in the Bajío and Spanish North America