{"product_id":"africans-to-spanish-america-9780252080012","title":"Africans to Spanish America","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfricans to Spanish America\u003c\/i\u003e 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 prob\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A pioneering effort to write the history of Africans in colonial Spanish America using the African diaspora paradigm. The authors fully demonstrate the considerable potential of this approach.\"--Kris Lane, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Colour of Paradise: The Emerald in the Age of Gunpowder Empires\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A page-turning secret society history based on solid research and accuracy.\"--\u003ci\u003eSouthern Historian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAfricans to Spanish America\u003c\/i\u003e is both useful and provocative, with chapters drawing on a range of methodological approaches to explore the complexities and nuances of racial identity in diverse Spanish American societies.”-- \u003ci\u003eJournal of \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eLatin American Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Aside from \"expanding\" diasporic history geographically, \u003ci\u003eAfricans to Spanish America\u003c\/i\u003e also reminds us that between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries the experiences of people of African descent in Spanish America were more varied than the paradigmatic plantation-centered historiography of the Caribbean and Brazil has implied.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew West Indiana Guide\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Expands the spatial and chronological contours of the African diaspora. A rich anthology comprised of short, clearly argued, and jargon-free essays.\"--\u003ci\u003eHispanic American Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Deeply researched work. The essays pay due attention to the religious and political institutions that enabled Spanish colonial rule but show how African-descended subjects--in a departure from third-wave scholarship--identified with those institutions more often than they resisted them.\"--\u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The authors add valuable knowledge to the literature on slavery and colonialism in the Americas as they shift attention to the earliest phases of European imperialism in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and to locations throughout the hemisphere. . . . An empirically rich work that contributes valuable knowledge to a fast-growing field of research.\"--\u003ci\u003eInternational Migration Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A truly significant contribution to the field of the African Diaspora in colonial Spanish America in the era of slavery and slave society. The volume's most striking feature is the depth of inquiry into various features of Spanish American slave society and their impact on the lives of people of African descent and on the character of the colonial societies and imperial policy.\"--David Barry Gaspar, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eBeyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the Americas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction      1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSherwin K. Bryant, Ben Vinson III, and Rachel Sarah O'Toole\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 1. Complicating Identity in the African Diaspora to Spanish America\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Shape of a Diaspora: The Movement of Afro-Iberians to Colonial Spanish America      27\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLeo J. Garofalo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. African Diasporic Ethnicity in Mexico City to 1650      50\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrank \"Trey\" Proctor III\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. To Be Free and \u003ci\u003eLucumi\u003c\/i\u003e: Ana de la Calle and Making African Diaspora Identities in Colonial Peru      73\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRachel Sarah O'Toole\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 2. Royal Subjects, Loyal Christians, and Saints in the Alley\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. Between the Cross and the Sword: Religious Conquest and Maroon Legitimacy in Colonial Esmeraldas      95\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharles Beatty-Medina\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. Afro-Mexican Saintly Devotion in a Mexico City Alley      114\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoan C. Bristol\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. \"The Lord walks among the pots and pans\": Religious Servants of Colonial Lima      136\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNancy E. van Deusen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 3. Comparisons and Whitening Revisited: Race and Gender in Colonial Cuba\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7. Whitening Revisited: Nineteenth-Century Cuban Counterpoints      163\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKaren Y. Morrison\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8. Tensions of Race, Gender, and Midwifery in Colonial Cuba      186\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichele Reid-Vazquez\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 9. The African American Experience in Comparative Perspective: The Current Question of the Debate      206\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHerbert S. Klein\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Glossary      223\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography      229\u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors      263\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments      268\u003cbr\u003e Index      269","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400496980311,"sku":"9780252080012","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252080012.jpg?v=1730470825","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/africans-to-spanish-america-9780252080012","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}