Title Africans to Spanish America : expanding the diaspora / edited by Sherwin K. Bryant, Rachel Sarah O'Toole and Ben Vinson, III

Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource Series New Black studies series New Black studies series. Contents The Shape of a Diaspora : The Movement of Afro-Iberians to Colonial Spanish America / Leo Garofalo -- African Diasporic Ethnicity in Mexico City to 1650 / Frank "Trey" Proctor -- To Be Free and Lucumí : Ana de la Calle and Making African Diaspora Identities in Colonial Peru / Rachel Sarah O'Toole -- Between the Cross and the Sword : Religious Conquest and Maroon Legitimacy in Colonial Esmeraldas / Charles Beatty-Medina -- Finding Saints in an Alley : Afro-Mexicans in Early Eighteenth-Century Mexico City / Joan Cameron Bristol -- The Religious Servants of Lima, 1600-1700 / Nancy E. van Deusen -- Whitening Revisited : Nineteenth-Century Cuban Counterpoints / Karen Y. Morrison -- Tensions of Race, Gender, and Midwifery in Colonial Cuba / Michele B. Reid -- The African American Experience in Comparative Perspective : The Current Question of the Debate / Herbert S. Klein Summary "Exploring the connections between colonial Latin American historiography and the scholarship on the African Diaspora in the Spanish empires, Africans to Spanish America points to the continuities as well as disjunctures between the two fields of study. While a majority of the research on the colonial diaspora focuses on the Caribbean and Brazil, analysis of the regions of Mexico and the Andes open up new questions of community formation that incorporated Spanish legal strategies in secular and ecclesiastical institutions as well as articulations of multiple African identities. Therefore, it is critically important to expand the lens of the Diaspora framework that has come to shape so much of the recent scholarship on Africans in the Americas. Comprised of nine original essays, this volume is organized into three sections. Starting with voluntary and forced migrations across the Atlantic, Part I explores four distinct cases of identity construction that intersect with ongoing debates in African Diaspora scholarship regarding the models of continuity and creolization in the Americas. Part II interrogates how enslaved and free people employed their rights as Catholics to present themselves as civilized subjects, loyal Christians, and resisters to slavery. Part III asks how free people of color claimed categories of inclusion based on a identities of professional medical practitioners of "white" in transformative moments of the late colonial period." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-262) and index Notes English Print version record SUBJECT Lateinamerika gnd Subject Black people -- Latin America -- History Black people -- Race identity -- Latin America -- History Slavery -- Latin America -- History Slavery and the church -- Catholic Church. Slavery and the church -- Latin America African diaspora. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Black Studies (Global) HISTORY -- Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. African diaspora Black people Black people -- Race identity Slavery Slavery and the church Slavery and the church -- Catholic Church Sklave Schwarze Afrikaner SUBJECT Latin America -- History -- To 1830. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074898 Subject Latin America Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book Author Bryant, Sherwin K O'Toole, Rachel Sarah Vinson, Ben, III. LC no. 2019716509 ISBN 9780252093715 0252093712 1283994526 9781283994521

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