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Africans in Colonial Mexico : absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole consciousness, 1570-1640
2003
Overview
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.
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Subject
/ Acculturation -- Mexico -- History
/ Blacks
/ Blacks -- Marriage customs and rites -- Mexico -- Mexico City
/ Blacks -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- Social conditions
/ Church and state -- Mexico -- History
/ Ecclesiastical law -- Mexico -- History
/ History
/ Mexico
/ Mexico -- History -- Spanish colony, 1540-1810
/ Slavery
ISBN
9780253342362, 0253342368
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