Colonial Blackness - A History of Afro-Mexico

Informationen zum Autor Herman L. Bennett is Professor of History at The Graduate Center, CUNY, and author of Africans in Colonial Mexico: Absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole Consciousness, 1570-1640 (IUP, 2003). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung The impact of slavery and freedom on black identity and cultural formation Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Tables Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Writing Afro-Mexican History 1. Discipline and Culture 2. Genealogies to a Past 3. Creoles 4. Provincial Black Life 5. Local Blackness 6. Narrating Freedom 7. Sin Epilogue: Colonial Blackness? Bibliography Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Herman L. Bennett is Professor of History at The Graduate Center, CUNY, and author of Africans in Colonial Mexico: Absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole Consciousness, 1570-1640 (IUP, 2003).

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Herman L Bennett, Herman L. Bennett, Bennett Herman L
• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 29.11.2010
• EAN: 9780253223319
• ISBN: 978-0-253-22331-9
• Seiten: 248
• Serien: Blacks in the Diaspora (Paperb; Blacks in the Diaspora; Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Geowissenschaften > Geografie; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Sozialwissenschaften allgemein