{"id":27098,"date":"2012-12-24T03:39:03","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T03:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=27098"},"modified":"2014-12-14T18:58:18","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T18:58:18","slug":"the-black-middle-africans-mayas-and-spaniards-in-colonial-yucatan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=27098","title":{"rendered":"The Black Middle: Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial Yucat\u00e1n"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sup.org\/books\/title\/?id=6995\" target=\"_blank\">The Black Middle:\u00a0Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial Yucat\u00e1n<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sup.org\" target=\"_blank\">Stanford University Press<\/a><br \/>\n2009<br \/>\n456 pages<br \/>\n39 tables, 4 figures, 13 illustrations, 11 maps.<br \/>\nCloth ISBN: 9780804749831<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/history.psu.edu\/directory\/mxr40\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Restall<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Latin American History and Director of Latin American Studies<br \/>\n<em>Pennsylvania State University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sup.org\/books\/title\/?id=6995\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sup.org\/img\/covers\/large\/pid_6995.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Black Middle<\/em> is the first full-length study of black African slaves and other people of African descent in the Spanish colonial province of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yucat%C3%A1n\" target=\"_blank\">Yucat\u00e1n<\/a>, which is today part of southern Mexico. The study is based on Spanish and Maya-language documents from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries, found in a dozen different archives (mostly in Spain and Mexico). Restall&#8217;s goal is to discover what life was like for a people hitherto ignored by historians. He explores such topics as slavery and freedom, militia service and family life, bigamy and witchcraft, and the ways in which Afro-Yucatec\u00e1ns (as he dubs them) interacted with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maya_peoples\" target=\"_blank\">Mayas<\/a> and Spaniards. He concludes that in numerous ways, Afro-Yucatecans lived and worked in a middle space between\u2014but closely connected to\u2014Mayas and Spaniards. The book&#8217;s &#8220;black middle&#8221; thesis has profound implications for the study of Africans throughout the Americas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Black Middle:\u00a0Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial Yucat\u00e1n Stanford University Press 2009 456 pages 39 tables, 4 figures, 13 illustrations, 11 maps. Cloth ISBN: 9780804749831 Matthew Restall, Professor of Latin American History and Director of Latin American Studies Pennsylvania State University The Black Middle is the first full-length study of black African slaves and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,21,459,8,103,17],"tags":[4633,2343,8564,339,13124],"class_list":["post-27098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-mexico","category-monographs","tag-afro-mexicans","tag-afromexicans","tag-matthew-restall","tag-stanford-university-press","tag-yucatan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27098","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=27098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}