Taxing Blackness: Free Afromexican Tribute in Bourbon New Spain

ISBN-13: 9780817320072 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 312 str.

Norah L. a. Gharala

Opis

During the eighteenth century, hundreds of thousands of free descendants of Africans in Mexico faced a highly specific obligation to the Spanish crown, a tax based on their genealogy and status. This book examines this tribute to explore the meanings of race, political loyalty, and legal privileges within the Spanish colonial regime.

Spis treści

• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Tribute and Calidad in the Spanish Empire
• Chapter 2. Revitalization and Reaction: Afromexican Tribute before 1763
• Chapter 3. Sons of Hidalgos or Ringleaders of the Indians? Defining Tributary Genealogies
• Chapter 4. Imperial Knowledge and the Expansion of Tribute
• Chapter 5. Mapping Community on the Afromexican Tribute Register
• Chapter 6. Genealogy and Disputed Tributary Status
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index