{"product_id":"taxing-blackness-9780817320072","title":"Taxing Blackness","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the eighteenth century, hundreds of thousands of free descendants of Africans in Mexico faced a highly specific obligation to the Spanish crown, a tax based on their genealogy and status. This book examines this tribute to explore the meanings of race, political loyalty, and legal privileges within the Spanish colonial regime.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn important study of the internal workings of the late eighteenth-century Spanish viceroyalties, exposing how racial specificity faded away in light of more pressing concerns regarding collecting as much tribute as possible. This book provides new perspectives on the history of race and class, demonstrating that physiognomy and phenotype did not overtake lineage.\"\" - Nicole von Germeten, author of \u003ci\u003eBlack Blood Brothers: Confraternities and Social Mobility for Afro-Mexicans\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eViolent Delights, Violent Ends: Sex, Race, and Honor in Colonial Cartagena de Indias\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 1. Tribute and \u003ci\u003eCalidad\u003c\/i\u003e in the Spanish Empire\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 2. Revitalization and Reaction: Afromexican Tribute before 1763\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 3. Sons of Hidalgos or Ringleaders of the Indians? Defining Tributary Genealogies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 4. Imperial Knowledge and the Expansion of Tribute\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 5. Mapping Community on the Afromexican Tribute Register\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 6. Genealogy and Disputed Tributary Status\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGlossary\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"The University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49083677999447,"sku":"9780817320072","price":46.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780817320072.jpg?v=1725549689","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/taxing-blackness-9780817320072","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}