Scholars, apart from Central Americans, have largely ignored the history of Africans in Central America; this collection recuperates the ignored and forgotten history of blacks in the region.
Scholars, apart from Central Americans, have largely ignored the history of Africans in Central America; this collection recuperates the ignored and forgotten history of blacks in the region.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Lowell Gudmundson is Professor of Latin American Studies and History at Mount Holyoke College. He is the author of Costa Rica Before Coffee: Economy and Society on the Eve of the Export Boom, a co-author of Liberalism Before Liberal Reform, and a co-editor of Coffee, Society, and Power in Latin America. Justin Wolfe is the William Arceneaux Associate Professor of Latin American History at Tulane University. He is the author of The Everyday Nation-State: Community and Ethnicity in Nineteenth-Century Nicaragua.
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Acknowledgments vii Introduction / Lowell Gudmundson and Justin Wolfe 1 Part I. Colonial Worlds of Slavery and Freedom Angolans in Amatitlán: Sugar, African Immigrants, and Gente Ladina in Colonial Guatemala / Paul Lokken 27 Cacao and Slavery in Matina, Costa Rica, 1650-1750 / Russell Lohse 57 Race and Place in Colonial Mosquitia, 1600-1787 / Karl H. Offen 92 Slavery and Social Differentiation: Slave Wages in Omoa / Rina Cáceres Gómez 130 Becoming Free, Becoming Ladino: Slave Emancipation and Mestizaje in Colonial Guatemala / Catherine Komisaruk 150 Part II. Nation Building and Reinscribing Race "The Cruel Whip": Race and Place in Nineteenth-Century Nicaragua / Justin Wolfe 177 What Difference did Color Make? Blacks in the "White Towns" of Western Nicaragua in the 1880s / Lowell Gudmundson 209 Race and the Space of Citizenship: The Mosquito Coast and the Place of Blackness and Indigeneity in Nicaragua / Juliet Hooker 246 Eventually Alien: The Multigenerational Saga of British Western Indians in Central America, 1870-1940 / Lara Putnam 278 White Zones: American Enclave Communities of Central America / Ronald Harpelle 307 The Slow Ascent of the Marginalized: Afro-Descendents in Costa Rica and Nicaragua / Mauricio Meléndez Obando 334 Bibliography 353 Contributors 385 Index 389
Acknowledgments vii Introduction / Lowell Gudmundson and Justin Wolfe 1 Part I. Colonial Worlds of Slavery and Freedom Angolans in Amatitlán: Sugar, African Immigrants, and Gente Ladina in Colonial Guatemala / Paul Lokken 27 Cacao and Slavery in Matina, Costa Rica, 1650-1750 / Russell Lohse 57 Race and Place in Colonial Mosquitia, 1600-1787 / Karl H. Offen 92 Slavery and Social Differentiation: Slave Wages in Omoa / Rina Cáceres Gómez 130 Becoming Free, Becoming Ladino: Slave Emancipation and Mestizaje in Colonial Guatemala / Catherine Komisaruk 150 Part II. Nation Building and Reinscribing Race "The Cruel Whip": Race and Place in Nineteenth-Century Nicaragua / Justin Wolfe 177 What Difference did Color Make? Blacks in the "White Towns" of Western Nicaragua in the 1880s / Lowell Gudmundson 209 Race and the Space of Citizenship: The Mosquito Coast and the Place of Blackness and Indigeneity in Nicaragua / Juliet Hooker 246 Eventually Alien: The Multigenerational Saga of British Western Indians in Central America, 1870-1940 / Lara Putnam 278 White Zones: American Enclave Communities of Central America / Ronald Harpelle 307 The Slow Ascent of the Marginalized: Afro-Descendents in Costa Rica and Nicaragua / Mauricio Meléndez Obando 334 Bibliography 353 Contributors 385 Index 389
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