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Taxing blackness : free Afromexican tribute in Bourbon New Spain / Norah L.A. Gharala.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gharala, Norah L. A. (Norah Linda Andrews), 1985- author.
- Series:
- Atlantic crossings.
- Atlantic crossings
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Free Black people--Mexico--Economic conditions--18th century.
- Free Black people.
- Free Black people--Mexico--Social conditions--18th century.
- Free Black people--Mexico--Genealogy.
- Taxation--Mexico--History--18th century.
- Taxation.
- Allegiance--Economic aspects--Mexico--History--18th century.
- Allegiance.
- Social status--Mexico--History--18th century.
- Social status.
- Mexico--Economic conditions--18th century.
- Mexico.
- Mexico--Race relations--History--18th century.
- Mexico--History--Spanish colony, 1540-1810.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (309 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- "History in North, Central, and South Americas. In the Bourbon New Spain (Mexico), taxes, including those from Mexicans of African descent who were free, were a rich, reliable source of revenue for the Crown. Taxing Blackness examines the experiences of Afromexicans and this tribute to get at the meanings of race, political loyalty, and legal privileges within the Spanish colonial regime. Gharala focuses on both the mechanisms officials used to define the status of free people of African descent as well as the responses of free-colored people to these categories and strategies. Her study spans the eighteenth century and focuses on a single institution to offer readers a closer look at the place of free-colored people in Mexico, which was the most profitable and populous colony of the Spanish Atlantic"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Tribute and calidad in the Spanish Empire
- Revitalization and reaction : Afromexican tribute before 1763
- Sons of Hidalgos or ringleaders of the Indians : defining tributary genealogies
- Imperial knowledge and the expansion of tribute
- Mapping community on the Afromexican tribute register
- Genealogy and disputed tributary status.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780817392208
- 0817392203
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