Format:
Online-Ressource (305 p.)
ISBN:
9780813036328
Series Statement:
History of African-American Religions
Content:
Celebrating the African contribution to Mexican culture, this book shows how religious brotherhoods in New Spain both preserved a distinctive African identity and helped facilitate Afro-Mexican integration into colonial society. Called confraternities, these groups provided social connections, charity, and status for Africans and their descendants for over two centuries
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Table of Contents; 2. Sisters: Women in Confraternities 41; Index 279; List of Tables and Graphs vii; Series Foreword ix; Preface and Acknowledgments xi; Introduction 1; 1. Blood Brothers: Afromexican Confraternities in the SeventeenthCentury 11; 3. Africans in Mexico City: From Rebellion to Religious Conformity 71; 4. Confraternities in Valladolid 104; 5. Moving toward Freedom in Valladolid 124; 6. Patronage and the Pardo Confraternity in Parral 159; 7. Conflict and Accommodation in Confraternities 188; Conclusion 221; Appendix 227; Notes 231; Bibliography 259;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813029429
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0813029422
Additional Edition:
Print version Black Blood Brothers : Confraternities and Social Mobility for Afro-Mexicans
Language:
English
Keywords:
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