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This is the first book to deal primarily and specifically with relations between Africans and native peoples in colonial Latin America. Matthew Restall has collected nine essays that represent contributions to the larger fields of colonial Latin American history, African diaspora studies, and ethnohistory. Among the subjects addressed are marriage and miscegenation, identity and nomenclature, cultural exchanges, labour, and co-operation in resisting colonialism versus collaboration. The authors examine core areas such as Mesoamerica, the Andes, and Brazil, and peripheral ones such as Florida, Colombia, and the Orinoco basin. The contributors find that relations between black and native peoples were sometimes harmonious, sometimes hostile, depending on local dynamics and individual agendas. Native and black soldiers fought sometimes as comrades, sometimes as adversaries, and couples in mixed marriages might identify as Indian or as black depending on where the advantage lay in a given society.Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of New Mexico Press
ISBN-139780826324030
eBay Product ID (ePID)95118574
Product Key Features
Publication Year2005
TypeTextbook
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
Subject AreaRegional History
Publication NameBeyond Black and Red: African-Native Relations in Colonial Latin America
AuthorMatthew Restall
SubjectSocial Sciences, Anthropology
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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorMatthew Restall