Tag: Herman L. Bennett

  • Asking readers to imagine a history of Mexico narrated through the experiences of Africans and their descendants, this book offers a radical reconfiguration of Latin American history. Using ecclesiastical and inquisitorial records, Herman L. Bennett frames the history of Mexico around the private lives and liberty that Catholicism engendered among enslaved Africans and free blacks,…

  • 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…

  • The African community in colonial Mexico under Spanish and Catholic rule.