Colonial Blackness: A History of Afro-Mexico

by Herman L. Bennett

Book Overview

Asking readers to imagine a history of Mexico narrated through the experiences of Africans and their descendants, this book offers a radical reconfiguration of Latin American history. Using ecclesiastical and inquisitorial records, Herman L. Bennett frames the history of Mexico around the private lives and liberty that Catholicism engendered among enslaved Africans and free blacks, who became majority populations soon after the Spanish conquest...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253223318
• ISBN13: 9780253223319
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher