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Colonial Blackness
Herman L. Bennett
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Description for Colonial Blackness
Paperback. The impact of slavery and freedom on black identity and cultural formation Series: Blacks in the Diaspora. Num Pages: 248 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KLC; 1KLCM; GTB; HBJK; HRC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 402.
Asking readers to imagine a history of Mexico narrated through the experiences of Africans and their descendants, this book offers a radical reconfiguration of Latin American history. Using ecclesiastical and inquisitorial records, Herman L. Bennett 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. The resulting history of 17th-century Mexico brings forth tantalizing personal and family dramas, body politics, and stories of lost virtue and sullen honor. By focusing on these phenomena among peoples of African descent, rather than the ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Series
Blacks in the Diaspora
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253223319
SKU
V9780253223319
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About Herman L. Bennett
Herman L. Bennett is Professor of History at The Graduate Center, CUNY, and author of Africans in Colonial Mexico: Absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole Consciousness, 1570–1640 (IUP, 2003).
Reviews for Colonial Blackness
What light is shed upon old topics when new sources are examined! In this major work on Afro-Mexican and, really, general Spanish American history, Bennett prowls through the neglected Mexican archival records [and] uncovers a vibrant black community developing its own customs and practices. . . . In place of a weak, shattered individualistic society . . . Bennett's Afro-Mexicans ... Read more