Africans to Spanish America
Expanding the Diaspora
Publication Year: 2012
Published by: University of Illinois Press
Series: The New Black Studies Series
Introduction
On August 1, 1708, the now infamous privateer Woodes Rogers departed Bristol to sail around the world, “first to the South-Sea, thence to the East-Indies, and homewards by the Cape of Good Hope.” Sailing down the Atlantic coast of South America...
1. The Shape of a Diaspora: The Movement of Afro-Iberians to Colonial Spanish America
The presence of Afro-Iberians who helped shape the cultural and physical webs that bound together the African, European, and American continents forces us to broaden our understanding of the history of Iberian empires and the African...
2. African Diasporic Ethnicity in Mexico City to 1650
On January 21, 1640, Pedro Sánchez and Mariana filed a petition for the right to marry at the Catedral Metropolitano, which served the main parish of Mexico City. The prospective bride and groom were both slaves, owned by Diego de Barrientos...
3. To Be Free and Lucumí: Ana de la Calle and Making AfricanDiaspora Identities in Colonial Perurachel
In 1719, Ana de la Calle paid a notary in the northern Peruvian city of Trujillo to compose her will. She identified herself as a free morena of casta lucumí or, as I will argue, a free woman of color from the Yorubaspeaking interior of the Bight...
4. Between the Cross and the Sword: Religious Conquest and Maroon Legitimacy in Colonial Esmeraldas
It has repeatedly been remarked that the beginning of African slavery in Spanish America brought with it the earliest rejection of slave life. Revolt, rebellion, and escape, along with myriad other forms of resistance, emerged in Spain’s colonies...
5. Afro-Mexican Saintly Devotion in a Mexico City Alley
In October 1699, María Lópes de Avilés informed Mexico City inquisitors about a rumor that Isidro the sweet seller, along with others, had “made in his house a certain feast, or celebration to which a variety of men of all species...
6. "The Lord walks among the pots and pans": Religious Servants of Colonial Lima
In his sermon given in 1681 at the profession of a donada, José de Aguilar emphasized that each nun was the señora of her own cross but that each servant, whether a...
Part 3. Comparisons and Whitening Revisited: Race and Gender in Colonial Cuba
7. Whitening Revisited: Nineteenth-Century Cuban Counterpoints
Two unreconciled perspectives on “whitening” have shaped the historiography on Latin America’s African descended people for the past forty years. On the one hand, scholars have defined whitening as a reproductive strategy pursued by black and mulatto...
8. Tensions of Race, Gender, and Midwifery in Colonial Cuba
In February 1828, the Cuban newspaper El Diario de la Habana reported a “truly painful” discovery: the “honorable” profession of midwifery had become “disgraced.” Its demise, the article claimed, centered on shifts in the female population and overall deficiencies...
9. The African American Experience in Comparative Perspective: The Current Question of the Debate
I would like to return to a theme that has been much neglected in the recent discussions on the African Diaspora in the Americas, and that is the question of the comparative differences and similarities between slave regimes in the Americas...
Acknowledgments
This volume is an outgrowth of a 2005 international conference, “The African Diaspora to Latin America: New Directions,” sponsored by the Center for African American History at Northwestern University. The symposium communicated an effort to complicate our understanding...
E-ISBN-13: 9780252093715
Print-ISBN-13: 9780252036637
Page Count: 288
Publication Year: 2012
Series Title: The New Black Studies Series
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