Tag: Ben Vinson III

  • Articulating Space: The Free-Colored Military Establishment in Colonial Mexico from the Conquest to Independence Callaloo Volume 27, Number 1 (Winter 2004) pages 150-171 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2004.0052 Ben Vinson, III, Vice Dean for Centers, Interdepartmental Programs, and Graduate Programs Johns Hopkins University Introduction: Questioning the Question of Non-White Military Service in Colonial Mexico At the close of…

  • Afro-Mexican History: Trends and Directions in Scholarship History Compass Volume 3, Issue 1 (January 2005) 14 pages DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2005.00156.x Ben Vinson, III, Vice Dean for Centers, Interdepartmental Programs, and Graduate Programs Johns Hopkins University This article surveys the development of a relatively new and vibrant subfield in Latin American History, mapping out the major stages…

  • Black Mexico: Race and Society from Colonial to Modern Times University of New Mexico Press 2009 296 pages 6 x 9 in, 21 halftones, 4 maps paperback ISBN: 978-0-8263-4701-5 Edited by: Ben Vinson III, Professor of history and Director of the Center for Africana Studies Johns Hopkins University Matthew Restall, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of…

  • The African Presence in Mexico A Symposium Presented by Callaloo – A Journal of African Diapora Arts and Letters and The Center for Africana Studies, Johns Hopkins University 2008-10-22 through 2008-10-23 Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Sessions The Road to Blackness: A Search for Identity Within the Afro-Mexican Community (audio, photographs) Slavery and Freedom…