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 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

Product details

• Authors: Herman L Bennett, Herman L. Bennett, Bennett Herman L
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.11.2010
• EAN: 9780253223319
• ISBN: 978-0-253-22331-9
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Blacks in the Diaspora (Paperb; Blacks in the Diaspora; Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)