03745nam 2200793Ia 450 991078026130332120230207223130.097866120721161-282-07211-00-253-10037-20-253-10985-X(CKB)111087026942662(EBL)153385(OCoLC)53012151(SSID)ssj0000345018(PQKBManifestationID)12083201(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000345018(PQKBWorkID)10315454(PQKB)10255485(SSID)ssj0000099930(PQKBManifestationID)11127575(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000099930(PQKBWorkID)10017602(PQKB)11051437(MiAaPQ)EBC153385(MdBmJHUP)muse16615(Au-PeEL)EBL153385(CaPaEBR)ebr10032161(CaONFJC)MIL207211(EXLCZ)9911108702694266220021023d2003 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAfricans in colonial Mexico[electronic resource] absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole consciousness, 1570-1640 /Herman L. BennettBloomington Indiana University Pressc20031 online resource (289 p.)Blacks in the diasporaDescription based upon print version of record.0-253-21775-X 0-253-34236-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Africans, Absolutism, and Archives; 1 Soiled Gods and the Formation of a Slave Society; 2 The Grand RemedyŽ: Africans and Christian Conjugality; 3 Policing Christians: Persons of African Descent before the Inquisition and Ecclesiastical Courts; 4 Christian Matrimony and the Boundaries of African Self-Fashioning; 5 Between Property and Person: Jurisdictional Conflicts over Marriage; 6 Creoles and Christian Narrat\ives; Postscript; Glossary; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Author""This book charts new directions in thinking about the construction of new world identities.... The way in which [Bennett] integrates race, gender, and the tension between canon and secular law into his analysis will inspire re-examination of earlier studies of marriage in Latin America and the Caribbean."" -- Judith A. Byfield Colonial Mexico was home to the largest population of free and slave Africans in the New World. Africans in Colonial Mexico explores how they learned to make their way iBlacks in the diaspora.Black peopleMexicoMexico CitySocial conditionsBlack peopleMarriage customs and ritesMexicoMexico CityAcculturationMexicoHistoryChurch and stateMexicoHistorySlavery and the churchMexicoHistoryEcclesiastical lawMexicoHistoryMexicoHistorySpanish colony, 1540-1810Black peopleSocial conditions.Black peopleMarriage customs and ritesAcculturationHistory.Church and stateHistory.Slavery and the churchHistory.Ecclesiastical lawHistory.972/.00496Bennett Herman L(Herman Lee),1964-1467210MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910780261303321Africans in colonial Mexico3677791UNINA