Blacks and Blackness in Central America Between Race and Place

Name: Blacks and Blackness in Central America Between Race and Place
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ISBN: 9780822348030

ISBN-10: 0822348039

ISBN-13: 9780822348030

Edition: 2010

Authors: Lowell Gudmundson, Justin Wolfe

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Many of the earliest Africans to arrive in the Americas came to Central America with Spanish colonists in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and people of African descent constituted the majority of non-indigenous populations in the region long thereafter. Yet in the development of national identities and historical consciousness, Central American nations have often countenanced widespread practices of social, political, and regional exclusion of blacks. The postcolonial development ofmestizoor mixed-race ideologies of national identity have systematically downplayed African roots and participation in favour of Spanish and Indian antecedents and contributions. In addition, a powerful…

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List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 10/18/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.17" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English

Justin Wolfe is an assistant professor of history at Tulane University.



Acknowledgments


Introduction




Colonial Worlds of Slavery & Freedom


Angolans In Amatitlï¿½n: Sugar, African Migrants, and Gente Ladina in Colonial Guatemala



Cacao and Slavery in Matina, Costa Rica, 165O-175O



Race and Place in Colonial Mosquitia, 160O-1787



Slavery and Social Differentiation: Slave Wages in Omoa



Becoming Free, Becoming Ladino: Slave Emancipation and Mestizaje in Colonial Guatemala




Nation Building & Reinscribing Race


"The Cruel Whip": Race and Place in Nineteenth-Century Nicaragua



What Difference Did Color Make?: Blacks in the "White Towns" of Western Nicaragua in the 1880s



Race and The Space of Citizenship: The Mosquito Coast and the Place of Blackness and Indigeneity in Nicaragua



Eventually Alien: The Multigenerational Saga of British West Indians in Central America, 1870-1940



White Zones: American Enclave Communities of Central America



The Slow Ascent of The Marginalized


Afro-Descendants in Costa Rica and Nicaragua



Bibliography


Contributors


Index