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Author : Adriana Naveda Chávez-Hita
Release : 2001
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Pardos, mulatos y libertos by : Adriana Naveda Chávez-Hita
Download or read book Pardos, mulatos y libertos written by Adriana Naveda Chávez-Hita. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matthew Restall
Release : 2009
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 833/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Black Middle by : Matthew Restall
Download or read book The Black Middle written by Matthew Restall. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Black Middle is the first book-length study of the interaction of black slaves and other people of African descent with Mayas and Spaniards in the Spanish colonial province of Yucatan (southern Mexico).
Author : David T. Gies
Release : 2018-02-02
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 761/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Eighteenth Centuries by : David T. Gies
Download or read book The Eighteenth Centuries written by David T. Gies. This book was released on 2018-02-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, when "globalization" is a buzzword invoked in nearly every realm, we turn back to the eighteenth century and witness the inherent globalization of its desires and, at times, its accomplishments. During the chronological eighteenth century, learning and knowledge were intimately connected across disciplinary and geographical boundaries, yet the connections themselves are largely unstudied. In The Eighteenth Centuries, twenty-two scholars across disciplines address the idea of plural Enlightenments and a global eighteenth century, transcending the demarcations that long limited our grasp of the period’s breadth and depth. Engaging concepts that span divisions of chronology and continent, these essays address topics ranging from mechanist biology, painted geographies, and revolutionary opera to Americanization, theatrical subversion of marriage, and plantation architecture. Weaving together many disparate threads of the historical tapestry we call the Enlightenment, this volume illuminates our understanding of the interconnectedness of the eighteenth centuries.
Author : Norah L. A. Gharala
Release : 2019
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 075/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Taxing Blackness by : Norah L. A. Gharala
Download or read book Taxing Blackness written by Norah L. A. Gharala. This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "History in North, Central, and South Americas. In the Bourbon New Spain (Mexico), taxes, including those from Mexicans of African descent who were free, were a rich, reliable source of revenue for the Crown. Taxing Blackness examines the experiences of Afromexicans and this tribute to get at the meanings of race, political loyalty, and legal privileges within the Spanish colonial regime. Gharala focuses on both the mechanisms officials used to define the status of free people of African descent as well as the responses of free-colored people to these categories and strategies. Her study spans the eighteenth century and focuses on a single institution to offer readers a closer look at the place of free-colored people in Mexico, which was the most profitable and populous colony of the Spanish Atlantic"--
Author : Ann Twinam
Release : 2015-01-28
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Purchasing Whiteness by : Ann Twinam
Download or read book Purchasing Whiteness written by Ann Twinam. This book was released on 2015-01-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A magisterial tour de force that will be received as a significant contribution to the historiography of race in colonial Latin America.” —Cecily Jones, H-Caribbean The colonization of Spanish America resulted in the mixing of Natives, Europeans, and Africans and the subsequent creation of a casta system that discriminated against them. Members of mixed races could, however, free themselves from such burdensome restrictions through the purchase of a gracias al sacar—a royal exemption that provided the privileges of Whiteness. For more than a century, the whitening gracias al sacar has fascinated historians. Even while the documents remained elusive, scholars continually mentioned the potential to acquire Whiteness as a provocative marker of the historic differences between Anglo and Latin American treatments of race. Purchasing Whiteness explores the fascinating details of 40 cases of whitening petitions, tracking thousands of pages of ensuing conversations as petitioners, royal officials, and local elites disputed not only whether the state should grant full whiteness to deserving individuals, but whether selective prejudices against the castas should cease. Purchasing Whiteness contextualizes the history of the gracias al sacar within the broader framework of three centuries of mixed race efforts to end discrimination. It identifies those historic variables that structured the potential for mobility as Africans moved from slavery to freedom, mixed with Natives and Whites, and transformed later generations into vassals worthy of royal favor. By examining this history of pardo and mulatto mobility, the author provides striking insight into those uniquely characteristic and deeply embedded pathways through which the Hispanic world negotiated processes of inclusion and exclusion.
