by Patrick J. Carroll
University of Texas Press, 1991
Paper: 978-0-292-71233-1 | Cloth: 978-0-292-70780-1 | eISBN: 978-0-292-78993-7
Library of Congress Classification F1371.C298 2001
Dewey Decimal Classification 972.6200496

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

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.