Black blood brothers : confraternities and social mobility for Afro-Mexicans /

Celebrating the African contribution to Mexican culture, this book shows how religious brotherhoods in New Spain both preserved a distinctive African identity and helped facilitate Afro-Mexican integration into colonial society. Called confraternities, these groups provided social connections, chari...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Germeten, Nicole von
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, ©2006.
Colección:History of African-American religions.
Temas:
Black people > Mexico > Religion.
Confraternities > Mexico > History.
Confréries > Mexique > Histoire.
RELIGION > Institutions & Organizations.
Black people > Religion.
Confraternities.
Hautfarbe
Afrikanischer Einwanderer
Demographie
Ethnische Gruppe
Mexico.
Mexiko
Südamerika
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Table of Contents; 2. Sisters: Women in Confraternities 41; Index 279; List of Tables and Graphs vii; Series Foreword ix; Preface and Acknowledgments xi; Introduction 1; 1. Blood Brothers: Afromexican Confraternities in the SeventeenthCentury 11; 3. Africans in Mexico City: From Rebellion to Religious Conformity 71; 4. Confraternities in Valladolid 104; 5. Moving toward Freedom in Valladolid 124; 6. Patronage and the Pardo Confraternity in Parral 159; 7. Conflict and Accommodation in Confraternities 188; Conclusion 221; Appendix 227; Notes 231; Bibliography 259

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