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Before Mestizaje
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Artikel-Nr:
9781107670815
Veröffentl:
2019
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
19.03.2019
Seiten:
318
Autor:
Ben Vinson Iii
Gewicht:
463 g
Format:
229x152x17 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Ben Vinson, III is the Dean of Arts and Sciences at the George Washington University, Washington, DC. He was formerly the director of the Center of Africana Studies at The Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of numerous books, including Bearing Arms for His Majesty: The Free-Colored Militia in Colonial Mexico (2002) and African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean (2007). He is the editor-in-chief of The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History.
This book deepens our understanding of race and the implications of racial mixture by examining the history of caste in colonial Mexico.
1. Wayward mixture: the problem of race in the colonies; 2. Mestizaje 1.0: the moment mixture had modern meaning; 3. 'Castagenesis' and the moment of castizaje; 4. The jungle of extremes (Castas); 5. Extreme mixture in a theater of numbers; 6. Betrothed: marrying into the extremes; 7. Betrothed: identity's riddle; 8. Betrayed; 9. Colonial bequests; Coda; Appendix A. Core records consulted from the Archivo General de la Nación; Appendix B. Place of origin of the extreme castas in Mexico City's marriage cases, 1605-1783; Appendix C. Extreme caste slave sales, from Mexico City Notarial Archive, seventeeth century; Appendix D. Identity reconsidered: factoring lineage into declarations of casta.