Colonial blackness
Subtitle: a history of Afro-Mexico
By: Herman L. Bennett.
Series: Blacks in the diaspora
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9780253353382
Subjects: Blacks -- Mexico -- History -- 17th century; Mexico -- Race relations -- History -- 17th century
Description: This is a history of 17th century Mexico narrated through the experiences of Africans and their descendants. Using ecclesiastical and inquisitorial records, the author frames the history of Mexico around the private lives and liberty that Catholicism engendered among enslaved Africans and free blacks, who became majority populations soon after the Spanish conquest. He describes personal and family dramas, body politics, and stories of lost virtue and sullen honor.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Discipline and culture; title: Genealogies of a past; title: Creoles; title: Provincial black life; title: Local blackness; title: Narrating freedom; title: Sin.