Description
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.
Author: Herman L. Bennett
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 11/29/2010
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 9.18h x 6.31w x 0.66d
ISBN13: 9780253223319
ISBN10: 0253223318
BISAC Categories:
- History | Latin America | Mexico
- Social Science | Black Studies (Global)
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Black Studies
About the Author
Herman L. Bennett is Professor of History at The Graduate Center, CUNY, and author of Africans in Colonial Mexico: Absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole Consciousness, 1570-1640 (IUP, 2003).
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