O'Hara / Fisher / Mignolo Imperial Subjects

Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9210-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 318 Seiten

Reihe: Latin America Otherwise

Historical investigations into how Iberian settlers, African slaves, Native Americans, and their multiethnic progeny understood their identities in colonial Latin America.

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Hara, Matthew D.

Fisher, Andrew B.

Mignolo, Walter D.

Silverblatt, Irene

Saldívar-Hull, Sonia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword / Irene Silverblatt ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction: Racial Identities and Their Interpreters in Colonial Latin America / Andrew B. Fisher and Matthew D. O'Hara 1

1. Aristocracy on the Auction Block: Race, Lords, and the Perpetuity Controversy of Sixteenth-Century Peru / Jeremy Mumford 39

2. A Market of Identities: Women, Trade, and Ethnic Labels in Colonial Potosí / Jane E. Mangan 61

3. Legally Indian: Inquisitorial Readings of Indigenous Identity in New Spain / David Tavárez 81

4. The Many Faces of Colonialism in Two Iberoamerican Borderlands: Northern New Spain and the Eastern Lowlands of Charcas / Cynthia Radding 101

5. Humble Slaves and Loyal Vassals: Free Africans and Their Descendents in Eighteenth-Century Minas Gerais, Brazil / Mariana L. R. Dantas 115

6. Purchasing Whiteness: Conversations of the Essence of Parso-ness and Mulatto-ness at the End of Empire / Ann Twinam 141

7. Patricians and Plebians in Late Colonial Charcas: Identity, Representation, and Colonialism / Sergio Serulnikov 167

8. Conjuring Identities: Race, Nativeness, Local Citizenship, and Royal Slavery on an Imperial Frontier (Revisiting El Cobre, Cuba) / María Elena Díaz 197

9. Indigenous Citizenship: Liberalism, Political Participation, and Ethic Identity in Post-Independence Oaxaca and Yucatán / Karen D. Caplan 225

Conclusion / R. Douglas Cope 249

Bibliography 263

Contributors 291

Index 293

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew B. Fisher is an Assistant Professor of History at Carleton College.Matthew D. O’Hara is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz.