Posed Argument

Casta paintings can be seen as indictments of contemporary colonial society,  generational progress, and social mobility; rather than merely an idyllic rendering of society in Latin America following colonization. With Casta paintings later on being able to onset discourse on racial differences, colonial hierarchies, and cultural hybridity. 

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While the Casta paintings intended to be divisive in its establishment of racial differentiations, it presents the idea of mutual status among interracial partners, as well as the attainability of social mobility and generational progress. The Casta is successful in portraying the above by placing an emphasis on the attire that these interracial familial units present themselves with, and thereafter inadvertently tells the audience the racial, social, and general status of these families.