Africans to Spanish America

by Bryant, Sherwin K.; O'toole, Rachel Sarah; Vinson, Ben

• ISBN13: 9780252036637
• ISBN10: 0252036638
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-04-15
• Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr

Summary

Africans to Spanish Americaexpands the diaspora framework to include Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, and Cuba, exploring the connections and disjunctures between colonial Latin America and the African diaspora in the Spanish empires. 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. The volume is arranged around three sub-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. Contributors are Joan Cameron Bristol, Nancy E. van Deusen, Leo Garafalo, Herbert S. Klein, Charles Beatty Medina, Karen Y. Morrison, Rachel Sarah O'Toole, Frank "Trey" Proctor, and Michele B. Reid.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Complicating Identity in the African Diaspora to Spanish America
The Shape of a Diaspora: The Movement of Afro-Iberians to Colonial Spanish America	p. 27
African Diasporic Ethnicity in Mexico City to 1650	p. 50
To Be Free and Lucumi: Ana de la Calle and Making African Diaspora Identities in Colonial Peru	p. 73
Royal Subjects, Loyal Christians, and Saints in the Alley
Between the Cross and the Sword: Religious Conquest and Maroon Legitimacy in Colonial Esmeraldas	p. 95
Afro-Mexican Saintly Devotion in a Mexico City Alley	p. 114
"The Lord walks among the pots and pans": Religious Servants of Colonial Lima	p. 136
Comparisons and Whitening Revisited: Race and Gender in Colonial Cuba
Whitening Revisited: Nineteenth-Century Cuban Counterpoints	p. 163
Tensions of Race, Gender, and Midwifery in Colonial Cuba	p. 186
The African American Experience in Comparative Perspective: The Current Question of the Debate	p. 206
Glossary	p. 223
Bibliography	p. 229
List of Contributors	p. 263
Acknowledgments	p. 268
Index	p. 269
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