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Colonial Blackness
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.
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Blackness in Mexico
An up-close view of the movement to make \"Afro-Mexican\"
an official cultural category
Through historical and ethnographic research, Blackness in
Mexico delves into the ongoing movement toward recognizing
Black Mexicans as a cultural group within a nation that has long
viewed the non-Black Mestizo as the archetypal citizen.
Anthony Jerry focuses on this process in Mexico's Costa Chica
region in order to explore the relational aspects of citizenship
and the place of Black people in how modern citizenship is
imagined.
Jerry's study of the Costa Chica shows the political stakes of
the national project for Black recognition; the shared but
competing interests of the Mexican government, activists, and
townspeople; and the ways that the state and NGOs are working to
make \"Afro-Mexican\" an official cultural category. He argues that
that the demand for recognition by Black communities calls
attention to how the Mestizo has become an intuitive point
of reference for identifying who qualifies as \"other.\" Jerry also
demonstrates that while official recognition can potentially
empower African descendants, it can simultaneously reproduce the
same logics of difference that have brought about their social and
political exclusion.
One of few books to center Blackness within a discussion of
Mexico or to incorporate a focus on Mexico into Black studies, this
book ultimately argues that the official project for recognition is
itself a methodology of mestizaje , an opportunity for the
government to continue to use Blackness to define the national
subject and to further the Mexican national project.
A volume in the series New World Diasporas, edited by Kevin A.
Yelvington
Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining
the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the
National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Taxing blackness : free Afromexican tribute in Bourbon New Spain
\"History in North, Central, and South Americas. In the Bourbon New Spain (Mexico), taxes, including those from Mexicans of African descent who were free, were a rich, reliable source of revenue for the Crown. Taxing Blackness examines the experiences of Afromexicans and this tribute to get at the meanings of race, political loyalty, and legal privileges within the Spanish colonial regime. Gharala focuses on both the mechanisms officials used to define the status of free people of African descent as well as the responses of free-colored people to these categories and strategies. Her study spans the eighteenth century and focuses on a single institution to offer readers a closer look at the place of free-colored people in Mexico, which was the most profitable and populous colony of the Spanish Atlantic\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Africans in Colonial Mexico : absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole consciousness, 1570-1640
This book charts new directions in thinking about the construction
of new world identities... The way in which [Bennett] integrates race, gender, and
the tension between canon and secular law into his analysis will inspire
re-examination of earlier studies of marriage in Latin America and the
Caribbean. -- Judith A. Byfield Colonial Mexico was home to
the largest population of free and slave Africans in the New World. Africans in
Colonial Mexico explores how they learned to make their way in a culture of Spanish
and Roman Catholic absolutism by using the legal institutions of church and state to
create a semblance of cultural autonomy. From secular and ecclesiastical court
records, Bennett reconstructs the lives of slave and free blacks, their regulation
by the government and by the Church, the impact of the Inquisition, their legal
status in marriage, and their rights and obligations as Christian subjects. His
findings demonstrate the malleable nature of African identities in the Atlantic
world, as well as the ability of Africans to deploy their own psychological
resources to survive displacement and oppression.
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México's nobodies : the cultural legacy of the soldadera and Afro-Mexican women
\"Analyzes cultural materials that grapple with gender and blackness to revise traditional interpretations of Mexicanness. México's Nobodies examines two key figures in Mexican history that have remained anonymous despite their proliferation in the arts: the soldadera and the figure of the mulata. B. Christine Arce unravels the stunning paradox evident in the simultaneous erasure (in official circles) and ongoing fascination (in the popular imagination) with the nameless people who both define and fall outside of traditional norms of national identity. The book traces the legacy of these extraordinary figures in popular histories and legends, the Inquisition, ballads such as 'La Adelita' and 'La Cucaracha,' iconic performers like Toña la Negra, and musical genres such as the son jarocho and danzón. This study is the first of its kind to draw attention to art's crucial role in bearing witness to the rich heritage of blacks and women in contemporary México. 'No one has written as lovingly and profusely on Mexican minorities as the wonderful B. Christine Arce. Here she writes about soldaderas, women of color, and camp followers--the courageous women who followed the troops during the Mexican Revolution. Without these women, soldiers would have deserted and the men would have run back home. Arce has not only captured the essence of Mexican women but also of Afro-Mexicans, who are typically forgotten and purposefully neglected'--Elena Poniatowska, author of Massacre in Mexico\"--Publisher description.
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Indigenous and Black Confraternities in Colonial Latin America
Employing a transregional and interdisciplinary approach, this volume explores indigenous and black confraternities -or lay Catholic brotherhoods- founded in colonial Spanish America and Brazil between the sixteenth and eighteenth century. It presents a varied group of cases of religious confraternities founded by subaltern subjects, both in rural and urban spaces of colonial Latin America, to understand the dynamics and relations between the peripheral and central areas of colonial society, underlying the ways in which colonialized subjects navigated the colonial domain with forms of social organization and cultural and religious practices. The book analyzes indigenous and black confraternal cultural practices as forms of negotiation and resistance shaped by local devotional identities that also transgressed imperial religious and racial hierarchies. The analysis of these practices explores the intersections between ethnic identity and ritual devotion, as well as how the establishment of black and indigenous religious confraternities carried the potential to subvert colonial discourse.
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Géneros de gente in early colonial Mexico : defining racial difference
\"Examines the development of racial categories and stereotypes in early colonial Mexico, the establishment of a discriminatory legal system by the Spanish government, and the inability of that system to limit the social and economic advancement of non-Spaniards.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Afro-Mexico
This study of African-based dance in Mexico explores the influence of African people and their cultural productions on Mexican society, showing how dance can embody social histories and relationships.
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