Black Mexico
Subtitle: race and society from colonial to modern times
By: edited by Ben Vinson III and Matthew Restall.
Contributors: Vinson, Ben, III.; Restall, Matthew, 1964-
Series: Diálogos
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780826347015
Subjects: Blacks -- Mexico -- History; Blacks -- Mexico -- Social conditions; Blacks -- Race identity -- Mexico; Mexico -- Race relations; Mexico -- History -- Spanish colony, 1540-1810; Mexico -- History -- 1810-
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Slave rebellion and liberty in colonial Mexico / Frank "Trey" Proctor III; title: Negotiating two worlds : the free-Black experience in Guerrero's tierra caliente / Andrew B. Fisher; title: Black aliens and Black natives in New Spain's indigenous communities / Pat Carroll; title: From dawn 'till dusk : Black labor in late colonial Mexico / Ben Vinson III; title: Colonial middle men? : mulatto identity in New Spain's confraternities / Nicole von Germeten; title: Potions and perils : love-magic in seventeenth-century Afro-Mexico and Afro-Yucatan / Joan Bristol and Matthew Restall; title: "Afro" Mexico in Black, white, and Indian : an anthropologist reflects on fieldwork / Laura A. Lewis; title: My blackness and theirs : viewing Mexican blackness up close / Bobby Vaughn; title: The Thorntons : saga of an Afro-Mexican family / Alva Moore Stevenson; title: The need to recognize Afro-Mexicans as an ethnic group / Jean-Philibert Mobwa Mobwa N'djoli.