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Book SynopsisDeals specifically with relations between Africans and native peoples in colonial Latin America. Here, the author has collected nine essays that represent contributions to the larger fields of colonial Latin American history, African diaspora studies, and ethnohistory.
Table of ContentsIntroduction -- Black Slaves, Red Paint; Meanings of Military Service in the Spanish American Colonies; Africans and Native Americans on the Spanish Florida Frontier; Common Cause and Confrontation Between Blacks and Natives in Colonial Brazil; Conflict and Collaboration Between Afro-Mexicans and Nahuas in Central Mexico; Race Relations and Popular Political Culture in Nueva Granada; Africans and Natives in the Moines of Spanish America; Black-Maya Relations in Colonial Guatemala and Yucatan; Ethnic Transgression and Hybridity in North-eastern South American and the Caribbean; Black-Native Relations and the Historical Record in Colonial Mexico; Index.
