Gudmundson / Wolfe Blacks and Blackness in Central America

Between Race and Place
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9313-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 416 Seiten

Reihe: e-Duke books scholarly collection

Essays recovering the forgotten and downplayed histories of blacks in Central America, demonstrating the centrality of African Americans to the regions history from the earliest colonial times to the present.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gudmundson, Lowell

Wolfe, Justin

Weitere Mitwirkende

Lokken, Paul

Lohse, Russell

Offen, Karl H.

Gómez, Rina Cáceres

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction / Lowell Gudmundson and Justin Wolfe 1

Part I. Colonial Worlds of Slavery and Freedom

Angolans in Amatitlán: Sugar, African Immigrants, and Gente Ladina in Colonial Guatemala / Paul Lokken 27

Cacao and Slavery in Matina, Costa Rica, 1650-1750 / Russell Lohse 57

Race and Place in Colonial Mosquitia, 1600-1787 / Karl H. Offen 92

Slavery and Social Differentiation: Slave Wages in Omoa / Rina Cáceres Gómez 130

Becoming Free, Becoming Ladino: Slave Emancipation and Mestizaje in Colonial Guatemala / Catherine Komisaruk 150

Part II. Nation Building and Reinscribing Race

"The Cruel Whip": Race and Place in Nineteenth-Century Nicaragua / Justin Wolfe 177

What Difference did Color Make? Blacks in the "White Towns" of Western Nicaragua in the 1880s / Lowell Gudmundson 209

Race and the Space of Citizenship: The Mosquito Coast and the Place of Blackness and Indigeneity in Nicaragua / Juliet Hooker 246

Eventually Alien: The Multigenerational Saga of British Western Indians in Central America, 1870-1940 / Lara Putnam 278

White Zones: American Enclave Communities of Central America / Ronald Harpelle 307

The Slow Ascent of the Marginalized: Afro-Descendents in Costa Rica and Nicaragua / Mauricio Meléndez Obando 334

Bibliography 353

Contributors 385

Index 389

Über Autor(innen)

Lowell Gudmundson is Professor of Latin American Studies and History at Mount Holyoke College. He is the author of Costa Rica Before Coffee: Economy and Society on the Eve of the Export Boom, a co-author of Liberalism Before Liberal Reform, and a co-editor of Coffee, Society, and Power in Latin America.Justin Wolfe is the William Arceneaux Associate Professor of Latin American History at Tulane University. He is the author of The Everyday Nation-State: Community and Ethnicity in Nineteenth-Century Nicaragua.