Overview

Africans to Spanish America expands the Diaspora framework that has shaped much of the recent scholarship on Africans in the Americas to include Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, and Cuba, exploring the connections and disjunctures between colonial Latin America and the African Diaspora in the Spanish empires. 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 opens up new questions of community formation that incorporated Spanish legal strategies in secular and ecclesiastical institutions as well as articulations of multiple African identities. Editors Sherwin K. Bryant, Rachel Sarah O'Toole, and Ben Vinson III arrange the volume around three themes: identity construction in the Americas; the struggle by enslaved and free people to present themselves as civilized, Christian, and resistant to slavery; and issues of cultural exclusion and inclusion. Across these broad themes, contributors offer probing and detailed studies of the place and roles of people of African descent in the complex realities of colonial Spanish America. Contributors are Joan C. Bristol, Nancy E. van Deusen, Leo J. Garofalo, Herbert S. Klein, Charles Beatty-Medina, Karen Y. Morrison, Rachel Sarah O'Toole, Frank ""Trey"" Proctor III, and Michele Reid-Vazquez.

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Author:   Sherwin K. Bryant ,  Rachel Sarah O'Toole ,  Ben Vinson ,  Joan C. Bristol
Publisher:   University of Illinois Press
Imprint:   University of Illinois Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.794kg
ISBN:  

9780252036637

ISBN 10:   0252036638
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   30 March 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Introduction      1 Sherwin K. Bryant, Ben Vinson III, and Rachel Sarah O'Toole Part 1. Complicating Identity in the African Diaspora to Spanish America 1. The Shape of a Diaspora: The Movement of Afro-Iberians to Colonial Spanish America      27 Leo J. Garofalo 2. African Diasporic Ethnicity in Mexico City to 1650      50 Frank ""Trey"" Proctor III 3. To Be Free and Lucumi: Ana de la Calle and Making African Diaspora Identities in Colonial Peru      73 Rachel Sarah O'Toole Part 2. Royal Subjects, Loyal Christians, and Saints in the Alley 4. Between the Cross and the Sword: Religious Conquest and Maroon Legitimacy in Colonial Esmeraldas      95 Charles Beatty-Medina 5. Afro-Mexican Saintly Devotion in a Mexico City Alley      114 Joan C. Bristol 6. ""The Lord walks among the pots and pans"": Religious Servants of Colonial Lima      136 Nancy E. van Deusen Part 3. Comparisons and Whitening Revisited: Race and Gender in Colonial Cuba 7. Whitening Revisited: Nineteenth-Century Cuban Counterpoints      163 Karen Y. Morrison 8. Tensions of Race, Gender, and Midwifery in Colonial Cuba      186 Michele Reid-Vazquez 9. The African American Experience in Comparative Perspective: The Current Question of the Debate      206 Herbert S. Klein Glossary      223 Bibliography      229 List of Contributors      263 Acknowledgments      268 Index      269"

Reviews

A pioneering effort to write the history of Africans in colonial Spanish America using the African diaspora paradigm. The authors fully demonstrate the considerable potential of this approach. Kris Lane, author of The Colour of Paradise: The Emerald in the Age of Gunpowder Empires

A pioneering effort to write the history of Africans in colonial Spanish America using the African diaspora paradigm. The authors fully demonstrate the considerable potential of this approach. --Kris Lane, author of The Colour of Paradise: The Emerald in the Age of Gunpowder Empires A page-turning secret society history based on solid research and accuracy. --Southern Historian Africans to Spanish America is both useful and provocative, with chapters drawing on a range of methodological approaches to explore the complexities and nuances of racial identity in diverse Spanish American societies. -- Journal of Latin American Studies Aside from expanding diasporic history geographically, Africans to Spanish America also reminds us that between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries the experiences of people of African descent in Spanish America were more varied than the paradigmatic plantation-centered historiography of the Caribbean and Brazil has implied. --New West Indiana Guide

"""A pioneering effort to write the history of Africans in colonial Spanish America using the African diaspora paradigm. The authors fully demonstrate the considerable potential of this approach."" Kris Lane, author of The Colour of Paradise: The Emerald in the Age of Gunpowder Empires"

A page-turning secret society history based on solid research and accuracy. --Southern Historian A pioneering effort to write the history of Africans in colonial Spanish America using the African diaspora paradigm. The authors fully demonstrate the considerable potential of this approach. --Kris Lane, author of The Colour of Paradise: The Emerald in the Age of Gunpowder Empires

Author Information

Sherwin K. Bryant is an assistant professor of African American studies and history at Northwestern University. Rachel Sarah O'Toole is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Irvine, and the author of Bound Lives: Africans, Indians, and the Making of Race in Colonial Peru.Ben Vinson III is Herbert Baxter Adams Professor of Latin American History at Johns Hopkins University.

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