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  • Africans to Spanish America: Expanding the Diaspora ed. by Sherwin K. Bryant, Rachel Sarah O'Toole, and Ben Vinson III
Africans to Spanish America: Expanding the Diaspora. Edited by Sherwin K. Bryant, Rachel Sarah O'Toole, and Ben Vinson III. Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois, 2012. Pp. 279. Glossary. Bibliography, Index. $50.00 cloth.

Introduction
Sherwin K. Bryant, Ben Vinson III, and Rachel Sarah O'Toole [End Page 97]

Part I: Complicating Identity in the African Diaspora to Spanish America

The Shape of a Diaspora: The Movement of Afro-Iberians to Colonial Spanish America
Leo J. Garofalo

African Diasporic Ethnicity in Mexico City to 1650
Frank ("Trey") Proctor III

To Be Free and Lucumí: Ana de la Calle and Making African Diaspora Identities in Colonial Peru
Rachel Sarah O'Toole

Part II: Royal Subjects, Loyal Christians, and Saints in the Alley

Between the Cross and the Sword: Religious Conquest and Maroon Legitimacy in Colonial Esmeraldas
Charles Beatty-Medina

Afro-Mexican Saintly Devotion in a Mexico City Alley
Joan C. Bristol

"The Lord walks among the pots and pans": Religious Servants of Colonial Lima
Nancy E. van Deusen

Part III: Comparisons and Whitening Revisited: Race and Gender in Colonial Cuba

Whitening Revisited: Nineteenth-Century Cuban Counterpoints
Karen Y. Morrison

Tensions of Race, Gender, and Midwifery in Colonial Cuba
Michele Reid-Vazquez

The African American Experience in Comparative Perspective: The Current Question of the Debate
Herbert S. Klein [End Page 98]

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