| Colonial Blackness: A History of Afro-Mexico Contributor(s): Bennett, Herman L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0253223318 ISBN-13: 9780253223319 Publisher: Indiana University Press OUR PRICE: $25.74 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Latin America - Mexico - Social Science | Black Studies (global) - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies |
| Dewey: 972.004 |
| Series: Blacks in the Diaspora (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 6.31" W x 9.18" (0.88 lbs) 248 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mexican - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Chronological Period - 17th Century - Ethnic Orientation - African |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |