Ben Vinson Iii

Before Mestizaje

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Produktbeschreibung

This book deepens our understanding of race and the implications of racial mixture by examining the history of caste in colonial Mexico.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9781107670815
• ISBN-10: 1107670810
• Artikelnr.: 48387372

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.