Title Sovereign joy : Afro-Mexican kings and queens, 1539-1640 / Miguel A. Valerio

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2022 ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 264 pages) : illustrations Series Afro-Latin America Afro-Latin America. Contents Introduction : thinking Black joy, sovereignty, and being from colonial Latin America -- "With their king and queen" : early colonial Mexico, the origins of festive black kings and queens, and the birth of the Black Atlantic -- "Rebel black kings (and queens)"? : race, colonial psychosis, and Afro-Mexican kings and queens -- "Savage kings" and baroque festival culture : Afro-Mexicans in the celebration of the beatification of Ignatius of Loyola -- "Black and beautiful" : Afro-Mexican women performing Creole identity -- Conclusion : Where did the black court go? Summary "Sovereign Joy explores the performance of festive Black kings and queens among Afro-Mexicans between 1539 and 1640. This fascinating study illustrates how the first African and Afro-creole people in colonial Mexico transformed their ancestral culture into a shared identity among Afro-Mexicans, with particular focus on how public festival participation expressed their culture and subjectivities, as well as redefined their colonial condition and social standing. By analyzing this hitherto understudied aspect of Afro-Mexican Catholic confraternities in both literary texts and visual culture, Miguel A. Valerio teases out the deeply ambivalent and contradictory meanings behind these public processions and festivities that often reinscribed structures of race and hierarchy. Were they markers of Catholic subjecthood, and what sort of corporate structures did they create to project standing and respectability? Sovereign Joy examines many of these possibilities, and in the process highlights the central place occupied by Africans and their descendants in colonial culture. Through performance, Afro-Mexicans affirmed their being: the sovereignty of joy and the joy of sovereignty"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 27, 2022) Subject Black people -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- History -- 16th century Black people -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- History -- 17th century Festivals -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- History -- 16th century Festivals -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- History -- 17th century HISTORY -- Latin America -- General. Black people Festivals Manners and customs SUBJECT Mexico City (Mexico) -- Social life and customs -- 16th century Mexico City (Mexico) -- Social life and customs -- 17th century Subject Mexico -- Mexico City Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2022010287 ISBN 9781009086134 1009086138 9781009086905 1009086901

Other Titles Afro-Mexican kings and queens, 1539-1640

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