Africans in colonial Mexico: absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole consciousness, 1570-1640
Year: 2004
Type: book-review
Abstract: Creating Subjects and Forging Community: Afro-Mexicans and Colonial Institutional PowerScholarship on Mexico's place within the African Diaspora has experienced a veritable renaissance of late.Herman Bennett's book, Africans in Colonial Mexico, contributes to this effort by examining sixteenth-and seventeenth-century Mexico City, the capital of a colony that for much of this period held the second largest African slave population and the largest free black population in the Americas.
Source: Choice Reviews Online
Authors: Bennett, Herman L., Fisher, Andrew B.
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2077500570