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HEREDIA CORREA, Roberto. Friar Juan Zapata y Sandoval: One Step beyond the Criollo Consciousness. Nova tellus [online]. 2011, vol.29, n.2, pp.215-234. ISSN 0185-3058.

In spite of its being a legal dissertation, the treatise De iustitia distributiva et acceptione personarum ei opposita disceptatio gives its author, the Franciscan friar Juan de Zapata y Sandoval, the opportunity to disclosure his loving feelings for his sweet and beloved homeland and to utter his complaints about his country’s misfortunes. In this article we discuss Zapata᾽s defense of the controversy regarding the claim that people of indigenous, half-blood and criollo descent stake to access to benefits of clergy and civil posts.

Palavras-chave : Juan de Zapata y Sandoval; rights of indigenous; half-blood and criollo people; New Spain.