02753nam 2200589 a 450 991082809140332120200520144314.00-253-00361-X(CKB)2550000000007217(OCoLC)609856225(CaPaEBR)ebrary10367506(SSID)ssj0000358040(PQKBManifestationID)11304454(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000358040(PQKBWorkID)10378414(PQKB)10806017(MiAaPQ)EBC485245(MdBmJHUP)muse16991(Au-PeEL)EBL485245(CaPaEBR)ebr10367506(EXLCZ)99255000000000721720090115d2009 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrColonial blackness a history of Afro-Mexico /Herman L. Bennett1st ed.Bloomington Indiana University Pressc20091 online resource (248 p.)Blacks in the diasporaBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-253-35338-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Discipline and culture -- Genealogies of a past -- Creoles -- Provincial black life -- Local blackness -- Narrating freedom -- Sin.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 conventional history of Mexico with the narrative of slavery to freedom figured in, Colonial Blackness presents the colonial drama in all its untidy detail.Blacks in the diaspora.BlacksMexicoHistory17th centuryBlacksMexicoSocial conditions17th centuryMexicoRace relationsHistory17th centuryBlacksHistoryBlacksSocial conditions972/.00496Bennett Herman L(Herman Lee),1964-1658013MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910828091403321Colonial blackness4011769UNINA