Blacks & blackness in Central America : between race and place / edited by Lowell Gudmundson & Justin Wolfe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gudmundson, Lowell.

Wolfe, Justin, 1968-

ProQuest (Firm)

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Central America--History.

Black people.

Slavery--Central America--History.

Slavery.

Central America--Race relations--History.

Central America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (417 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2010

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Essays recovering the forgotten and downplayed histories of blacks in Central America, demonstrating the centrality of African Americans to the region s history from the earliest colonial times to the present.

Contents:

Angolans in Amatitlán : sugar, African migrants, and gente ladina in colonial Guatemala / Paul Lokken

Cacao and slavery in Matina, Costa Rica, 1650/1750 / Russell Lohse

Race and place in colonial Mosquitia, 1600/1787 / Karl H. Offen

Slavery and social differentiation: slave wages in Omoa / Rina Cáceres Gómez

Becoming free, becoming Ladino : slave emancipation and mestizaje in colonial Guatemala / Catherine Komisaruk

"The cruel whip": race and place in nineteenth-century Nicaragua / Justin Wolfe

What difference did color make? blacks in the "white towns" of western Nicaragua in the 1880s / Lowell Gudmundson

Race and the space of citizenship : the Mosquito Coast and the place of blackness and indigeneity in Nicaragua / Juliet Hooker

Eventually alien : the multigenerational saga of British West Indians in Central America, 1870/1940 / Lara Putnam

White zones : American enclave communities of Central America / Ronald Harpelle

The slow ascent of the marginalized : Afro-descendants in Costa Rica and Nicaragua / Mauricio Meléndez Obando.

Notes:

Description based on print version record

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-06569-X

9786613065698

0-8223-9313-1

OCLC:

678476441