The Black middle
Subtitle: Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in colonial Yucatan
By: Matthew Restall.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804749831
Subjects: Africans -- Yucatán Peninsula -- History; Blacks -- Yucatán Peninsula -- History; Yucatán Peninsula -- Race relations; Mexico -- History -- Spanish colony, 1540-1810
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : making the boatloads visible; title: Involuntary colonists; title: People as property; title: Race and rank; title: Ways of work; title: Ways up and ways out; title: Communities; title: Magical meetings; title: Conclusion : the Afro-Yucatecan middle.