Format:
1 online resource (249 pages)
ISBN:
9780253003614
Series Statement:
Blacks in the Diaspora
Content:
Asking readers to imagine a history of Mexico narrated through the experiences of Africans and their descendants, this book offers a radical reconfiguration of Latin American history. Using ecclesiastical and inquisitorial records, Herman L. Bennett frames the history of Mexico around the private lives and liberty that Catholicism engendered among enslaved Africans and free blacks, who became majority populations soon after the Spanish conquest. The resulting history of 17th-century Mexico brings forth tantalizing personal and family dramas, body politics, and stories of lost virtue and sullen honor. By focusing on these phenomena among peoples of African descent, rather than the conventional history of Mexico with the narrative of slavery to freedom figured in, Colonial Blackness presents the colonial drama in all its untidy detail.
Content:
Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Writing Afro-Mexican History -- One: Discipline and Culture -- Two: Genealogies of a Past -- Three: Creoles -- Four: Provincial Black Life -- Five: Local Blackness -- Six: Narrating Freedom -- Seven: Sin -- Epilogue: Colonial Blackness? -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780253353382
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780253353382
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=485245
