Blacks & Blackness in Central America

Between Race and Place
Herausgeber: Gudmundson, Lowell

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Produktbeschreibung

"This important collection of essays puts Central America firmly on the African Diaspora map. "Blacks and Blackness in Central America" is the one-stop volume that gathers together the leading scholars of the topic. They offer clear windows into their many years of research and discovery, collectively convincing the reader that Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica were far from marginal to the historical trajectories of people of African descent in the Americas."--Matthew Restall, author of "The Black Middle: Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial Yucatan"

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780822348030
• ISBN-10: 0822348039
• Artikelnr.: 30365012

Autorenporträt

Lowell Gudmundson and Justin Wolfe, eds.

Inhaltsangabe

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