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Bearing arms for his majesty : the free-colored militia in colonial Mexico / Ben Vinson III.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vinson, Ben.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sociology, Military.
- Freemen.
- Black people.
- Militia.
- Minorities.
- New Spain--Militia--Minorities.
- New Spain.
- Spain--Colonies--Defenses--America.
- Spain.
- Colonies.
- Defenses.
- America.
- Black people--Mexico.
- Freemen--Mexico.
- Sociology, Military--Mexico.
- Mexico.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 304 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- This study uses the participation of free-colored men, whether "mulatos," "pardos," or "morenos" (i.e., Afro-Spaniards, Afro-Indians, or " pure blacks" ), in New Spain' s militia as a prism for examining race relations, racial identity, racial categorization, and issues of social mobility for racially stigmatized groups in colonial Mexico.
- Contents:
- 1 Militia Awakenings 7
- 2 The Contours of Duty: Internal Militia Structure, Finances, and the Officer Corps 46
- 3 The Contours of Duty: Recruitment, Occupations, and Marriage 85
- 4 The Loathed Tax 132
- 5 The Fuero Privilege 173
- 6 The Meaning of Race 199.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-293) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0804742294
- OCLC:
- 46402081
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