Colonial blackness : a history of Afro-Mexico / 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--History--17th century.

Black people.

Black people--Mexico--Social conditions--17th century.

Mexico--Race relations--History--17th century.

Mexico.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Discipline and culture

Genealogies of a past

Creoles

Provincial black life

Local blackness

Narrating freedom

Sin.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-253-00361-X

OCLC:

609856225