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Africans in Colonial Mexico : absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole consciousness, 1570-1640 / Herman L. Bennett.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bennett, Herman L. (Herman Lee), 1964-
- Series:
- Blacks in the diaspora.
- Blacks in the diaspora
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Black people--Mexico--Mexico City--Social conditions.
- Black people.
- Black people--Marriage customs and rites--Mexico--Mexico City.
- Acculturation--Mexico--History.
- Acculturation.
- Church and state--Mexico--History.
- Church and state.
- Slavery and the church--Mexico--History.
- Slavery and the church.
- Ecclesiastical law--Mexico--History.
- Ecclesiastical law.
- Mexico--History--Spanish colony, 1540-1810.
- Mexico.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- ""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 i
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Africans, Absolutism, and Archives; 1 Soiled Gods and the Formation of a Slave Society; 2 The Grand RemedyŽ: Africans and Christian Conjugality; 3 Policing Christians: Persons of African Descent before the Inquisition and Ecclesiastical Courts; 4 Christian Matrimony and the Boundaries of African Self-Fashioning; 5 Between Property and Person: Jurisdictional Conflicts over Marriage; 6 Creoles and Christian Narrat\ives; Postscript; Glossary; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Author
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612072116
- 1-282-07211-0
- 0-253-10037-2
- 0-253-10985-X
- OCLC:
- 53012151
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