Black blood brothers : confraternities and social mobility for Afro-Mexicans / Nicole von Germeten ; foreword by Stephen W. Angell and Anthony B. Pinn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Germeten, Nicole von.

Series:

History of African-American religions.

The history of African-American religions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Mexico--Religion.

Black people.

Confraternities--Mexico--History.

Confraternities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Celebrating the African contribution to Mexican culture, this book shows how religious brotherhoods in New Spain both preserved a distinctive African identity and helped facilitate Afro-Mexican integration into colonial society. Called confraternities, these groups provided social connections, charity, and status for Africans and their descendants for over two centuries.

Contents:

Table of Contents; 2. Sisters: Women in Confraternities 41; Index 279; List of Tables and Graphs vii; Series Foreword ix; Preface and Acknowledgments xi; Introduction 1; 1. Blood Brothers: Afromexican Confraternities in the SeventeenthCentury 11; 3. Africans in Mexico City: From Rebellion to Religious Conformity 71; 4. Confraternities in Valladolid 104; 5. Moving toward Freedom in Valladolid 124; 6. Patronage and the Pardo Confraternity in Parral 159; 7. Conflict and Accommodation in Confraternities 188; Conclusion 221; Appendix 227; Notes 231; Bibliography 259

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-278) and index.

ISBN:

0-8130-3632-1

OCLC:

671601968