edited by Sherwin K. Bryant, Rachel Sarah O'Toole and Ben Vinson
contributions by Rachel Sarah O'Toole, Frank "Trey" Proctor, Michele Reid-Vazquez, Joan C. Bristol, Nancy E. Van Deusen, Leo J. Garofalo, Herbert S. Klein, Charles Beatty-Medina and Karen Y. Morrison
University of Illinois Press, 2014
Paper: 978-0-252-08001-2 | Cloth: 978-0-252-03663-7 | eISBN: 978-0-252-09371-5
Library of Congress Classification F1419.N4A39 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.80098

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Africans to Spanish America expands the Diaspora framework that has shaped much of the recent scholarship on Africans in the Americas to include Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, and Cuba, exploring the connections and disjunctures between colonial Latin America and the African Diaspora in the Spanish empires. While a majority of the research on the colonial Diaspora focuses on the Caribbean and Brazil, 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. Editors Sherwin K. Bryant, Rachel Sarah O'Toole, and Ben Vinson III arrange the volume around three 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. Across these broad themes, contributors offer probing and detailed studies of the place and roles of people of African descent in the complex realities of colonial Spanish America.

Contributors are Joan C. Bristol, Nancy E. van Deusen, Leo J. Garofalo, Herbert S. Klein, Charles Beatty-Medina, Karen Y. Morrison, Rachel Sarah O'Toole, Frank "Trey" Proctor III, and Michele Reid-Vazquez.


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