La construcción identitaria de la diferencia : el caso del clérigo mestizo Andrés Romero (1564-1590)

The miscegenation and its relationship with the ecclesiastical history of the New Kingdom of Granada in the sixteenth century, has been a theme that has regained an interest in historical discipline. The present investigation seeks to analyze both phenomena from a microhistorical perspective between 1564 and 1590. Through the life trajectory of Andres Romero, first mestizo clergyman of the territory (1565) miscegenation will be understood as a flexible and ambiguous phenomenon, on which depends the context in which the mestizo was enunciated, but not who was the mestizo. In the same way, we try to locate the place of this individual in the ecclesiastical history of the region, asking ourselves what was his influence in the first two archbishoprics of the New Kingdom of Granada in terms of the evangelization of the territory. Due to the answers that this life story can give us, we propose a new methodology to analyze miscegenation and rethink the history of the Church in the colonial world.