Colonial Blackness

Herman L. Bennett

ISBN 10: 0253223318 / ISBN 13: 9780253223319

Published by Indiana University Press, 2010

About this Item

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. . 2010. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Colonial Blackness
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0253223318
• ISBN 13: 9780253223319
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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).