Sherwin K. Bryant is an assistant professor of African American studies and history at Northwestern University. Rachel Sarah O'Toole is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Irvine, and the author of Bound Lives: Africans, Indians, and the Making of Race in Colonial Peru.Ben Vinson III is Herbert Baxter Adams Professor of Latin American History at Johns Hopkins University.
Introduction 1
Sherwin K. Bryant, Ben Vinson III, and Rachel Sarah O'Toole
Part 1. Complicating Identity in the African Diaspora to Spanish America
1. The Shape of a Diaspora: The Movement of Afro-Iberians to Colonial
Spanish America 27
Leo J. Garofalo
2. African Diasporic Ethnicity in Mexico City to 1650 50
Frank "Trey" Proctor III
3. To Be Free and Lucumi: Ana de la Calle and Making African Diaspora
Identities in Colonial Peru 73
Rachel Sarah O'Toole
Part 2. Royal Subjects, Loyal Christians, and Saints in the Alley
4. Between the Cross and the Sword: Religious Conquest and Maroon
Legitimacy in Colonial Esmeraldas 95
Charles Beatty-Medina
5. Afro-Mexican Saintly Devotion in a Mexico City Alley 114
Joan C. Bristol
6. "The Lord walks among the pots and pans": Religious Servants of Colonial
Lima 136
Nancy E. van Deusen
Part 3. Comparisons and Whitening Revisited: Race and Gender in Colonial
Cuba
7. Whitening Revisited: Nineteenth-Century Cuban Counterpoints 163
Karen Y. Morrison
8. Tensions of Race, Gender, and Midwifery in Colonial Cuba 186
Michele Reid-Vazquez
9. The African American Experience in Comparative Perspective: The Current
Question of the Debate 206
Herbert S. Klein
Glossary 223
Bibliography 229
List of Contributors 263
Acknowledgments 268
Index 269
