Black Mexico: Race and Society from Colonial to Modern Times
The essays in this collection build upon a series of conversations and papers that resulted from "New Directions in North American Scholarship on Afro-Mexico," a symposium conducted at Pennsylvania State University in 2004. The issues addressed include contested historiography, social and economic contributions of Afro-Mexicans, social construction of race and ethnic identity, forms of agency and resistance, and contemporary inquiry into ethnographic work on Afro-Mexican communities....
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The essays in this Collection Build Upon a Series of Conversations and papers that resulted from "New Directions in North American Scholarship on Afro-Mexico," a symposium conducted at Pennsylvania State University in 2004. The issues addressed include contested historiography, social and economic contributions of Afro-Mexicans, social construction of race and ethnic identity, forms of agency and resistance, and contemporary inquiry into ethnographic work on Afro-Mexican communities. Comprised of a core set of chapters that examine the colonial period and a shorter epilogue addressing the modern era, this volume allows the reader to explore ideas of racial representation from the sixteenth century into the twenty-first.
Illustrations xiAcknowledgments xiiiIntroduction: Black Mexico and the Historical Discipline Ben Vinson III 1Section 1 Entering the Colonial WorldSlave Rebellion and Liberty in Colonial Mexico Frank "Trey" Proctor III 21Negotiating Two Worlds: The Free-Black Experience in Guerrero's Tierra Caliente Andrew B. Fisher 51Black Aliens and Black Natives in New Spain's Indigenous Communities Pat Carroll 72From Dawn 'til Dusk: Black Labor in Late Colonial Mexico Ben Vinson III 96Colonial Middle Men? Mulatto identity in New Spain's Confraternities Nicole von Germeten 136Potions and Perils: Love-Magic in Seventeenth-Century Afro-Mexico and Afro-Yucatan Joan Bristol Matthew Restall 155Section 2 Engaging Modernity"Afro" Mexico in Black, White, and Indian: An Anthropologist Reflects on Fieldwork Laura A. Lewis 183My Blackness and Theirs: Viewing Mexican Blackness Up Close Bobby Vaughn 209The Thorntons: Saga of an Afro-Mexican Family Alva Moore Stevenson 220The Need to Recognize Afro-Mexicans as an Ethnic Group Jean-Philibert Mobwa Mobwa N'djoli 224Glossary 233Bibliography 241Contributors 266Index 269
