{"id":18756,"date":"2011-12-04T23:57:06","date_gmt":"2011-12-04T23:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=18756"},"modified":"2012-03-14T00:51:35","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T00:51:35","slug":"creating-and-contesting-community-indians-and-afromestizos-in-the-late-colonial-tierra-caliente-of-guerrero-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=18756","title":{"rendered":"Creating and Contesting Community: Indians and Afromestizos in the Late-Colonial Tierra Caliente of Guerrero, Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1353\/cch.2006.0030\" target=\"_blank\">Creating and Contesting Community: Indians and Afromestizos in the Late-Colonial Tierra Caliente of Guerrero, Mexico<\/a><\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/journal_of_colonialism_and_colonial_history\/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/journal_of_colonialism_and_colonial_history\/toc\/cch7.1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 7, Number 1<\/a>, Spring 2006<br \/>\nE-ISSN: 1532-5768<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1353\/cch.2006.0030\" target=\"_blank\">10.1353\/cch.2006.0030<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Andrew B. Fisher<\/strong>, Associate Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Late in the afternoon of January 13, 1783 the parish priest of Tetela del R\u00edo, Br. don Nicol\u00e1s V\u00e1squez, rested in the hamlet (<em>cuadrilla<\/em>) of Cacalotepeque as he prepared to trek back to his parish seat. Father V\u00e1squez had arrived only an hour earlier to minister to the ailing daughter of Capit\u00e1n Luis de la Cruz, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">mulato<\/a> leader of the settlement. Cacalotepeque was but one of a number of informal communities scattered across the mid-<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Balsas_River\" target=\"_blank\">Balsas River<\/a> Valley of western Mexico. Consisting mostly of mulato farmers, the hamlet was neither recognized by the colonial state as an Indian pueblo nor held as a private estate. The land it occupied did not belong to its inhabitants, but rather comprised part of the contested territorial limits of two rival Indian pueblos, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Puebla\" target=\"_blank\">Tetela<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apaxtla_(municipality)\" target=\"_blank\">Apaxtla<\/a>, situated roughly equidistant from both. Much as Afromestizos lacked a stable and recognized position within colonial racial hierarchies, a semi-autonomous Afromestizo community likewise confronted a precarious existence. This reality was made abundantly clear to Father V\u00e1squez on that fateful afternoon. As he conversed with the hamlet&#8217;s residents, some sixty indigenous villagers from Apaxtla approached on horseback. Several local men informed V\u00e1squez that the villagers had arrived to steal away the cuadrilla&#8217;s corn, inducing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1353\/cch.2006.0030\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creating and Contesting Community: Indians and Afromestizos in the Late-Colonial Tierra Caliente of Guerrero, Mexico \u00a0 Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History Volume 7, Number 1, Spring 2006 E-ISSN: 1532-5768 DOI: 10.1353\/cch.2006.0030 Andrew B. Fisher, Associate Professor of History Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota Late in the afternoon of January 13, 1783 the parish priest of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,459,8,103],"tags":[4633,2343,8542,8537,8557,20753],"class_list":["post-18756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-mexico","tag-afro-mexicans","tag-afromexicans","tag-andrew-b-fisher","tag-andrew-fisher","tag-journal-of-colonialism-and-colonial-history","tag-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}