| Black Mexico: Race and Society from Colonial to Modern Times Contributor(s): Vinson, Ben (Editor), Restall, Matthew (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0826347010 ISBN-13: 9780826347015 Publisher: University of New Mexico Press OUR PRICE: $29.65 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2009 Annotation: This edited volume compiles the most recent research on a pivotal topic in Latin American history--Afro-Mexican experiences from pre-conquest to the modern period. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Latin America - Mexico - Social Science | Black Studies (global) - History | Social History |
| Dewey: 972.004 |
| LCCN: 2009020457 |
| Series: Dialogos (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 6.5" W x 9.14" (1.08 lbs) 296 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mexican - Ethnic Orientation - African - Ethnic Orientation - Chicano - Chronological Period - Modern |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The essays in this collection build upon a series of conversations and papers that resulted from New Directions in North American Scholarship on Afro-Mexico, a symposium conducted at Pennsylvania State University in 2004. The issues addressed include contested historiography, social and economic contributions of Afro-Mexicans, social construction of race and ethnic identity, forms of agency and resistance, and contemporary inquiry into ethnographic work on Afro-Mexican communities. Comprised of a core set of chapters that examine the colonial period and a shorter epilogue addressing the modern era, this volume allows the reader to explore ideas of racial representation from the sixteenth century into the twenty-first. |
Contributor Bio(s): Vinson, Ben: - Ben Vinson III is professor of history and Director of the Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Bearing Arms for His Majesty: The Free-Colored Militia in Colonial Mexico, Flight: The Story of Virgil Richardson, A Tuskegee Airman in Mexico, and coauthor of African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean. Restall, Matthew: - Matthew Restall is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History and Director of Latin American Studies at Pennsylvania State University. Restall is also the author of Invading Guatemala: Spanish, Nahua, and Maya Accounts of the Conquest Wars (coauthor), Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest, The Maya World, and The Black Middle: Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial Yucatán. |