Blacks in Colonial Veracruz: Race, Ethnicity, and Regional Development - Softcover

Carroll, Patrick J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0292712332 ISBN 13: 9780292712331

Publisher: University of Texas Press, 2001

Synopsis

Beginning with the Spanish conquest, Mexico has become a racially complex society intermixing Indian, Spanish, and African populations. Questions of race and ethnicity have fueled much political and scholarly debate, sometimes obscuring the experiences of particular groups, especially blacks. Blacks in Colonial Veracruz seeks to remedy this omission by studying the black experience in central Veracruz during virtually the entire colonial period.

The book probes the conditions that shaped the lives of inhabitants in Veracruz from the first European contact through the early formative period, colonial years, independence era, and the postindependence decade. While the primary focus is on blacks, Carroll relates their experience to that of Indians, Spaniards, and castas (racially hybrid people) to present a full picture of the interplay between local populations, the physical setting, and technological advances in the development of this important but little-studied region.

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About the Author

Patrick J. Carroll is Joe B. Frantz Professor of History at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0292712332
• ISBN 13: 9780292712331
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 256