{"id":40834,"date":"2015-04-12T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40834"},"modified":"2017-01-27T15:34:52","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T15:34:52","slug":"black-blood-brothers-confraternities-and-social-mobility-for-afro-mexicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40834","title":{"rendered":"Black Blood Brothers: Confraternities and Social Mobility for Afro-Mexicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/upf.com\/book.asp?id=VONGES06\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Black Blood Brothers: Confraternities and Social Mobility for Afro-Mexicans<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/upf.com\" target=\"_blank\">University Press of Florida<\/a><br \/>\n2006-05-30<br \/>\n304 pages<br \/>\n6 x 9<br \/>\nHardback ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-2942-9<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/liberalarts.oregonstate.edu\/users\/nicole-von-germeten\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Nicole von Germeten<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>Oregon State University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/upf.com\/book.asp?id=VONGES06\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/419XJS3WM9L.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Celebrating the African contribution to Mexican culture, this book shows how religious brotherhoods in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Spain\" target=\"_blank\">New Spain<\/a> both preserved a distinctive African identity and helped facilitate Afro-Mexican integration into colonial society. Called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Confraternity\" target=\"_blank\">confraternities<\/a>, these groups provided social connections, charity, and status for Africans and their descendants for over two centuries.<\/p>\n<p>Often organized by African women and dedicated to popular European and African saints, the confraternities enjoyed prestige in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baroque\" target=\"_blank\">Baroque<\/a> religious milieu of 17th-century New Spain. One group, founded by Africans called Zapes, preserved their ethnic identity for decades even after they were enslaved and brought to the Americas. Despite ongoing legal divisions and racial hierarchies, by the end of the colonial era many descendants from African slaves had achieved a degree of status that enabled them to move up the social ladder in Hispanic society. Von Germeten reveals details of the organization and practices of more than 60 Afro-Mexican brotherhoods and examines changes in the social, family, and religious lives of their members. She presents the stories of individual Africans and their descendants\u2014including many African women and the famous Baroque artist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Juan_Correa\" target=\"_blank\">Juan Correa<\/a>\u2014almost entirely from evidence they themselves generated. Moving the historical focus away from negative stereotypes that have persisted for almost 500 years, this study is the first in English to deal with Afro-Mexican religious organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Blood Brothers: Confraternities and Social Mobility for Afro-Mexicans University Press of Florida 2006-05-30 304 pages 6 x 9 Hardback ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-2942-9 Nicole von Germeten, Associate Professor of History Oregon State University Celebrating the African contribution to Mexican culture, this book shows how religious brotherhoods in New Spain both preserved a distinctive African identity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,21,459,8,103,17,820],"tags":[4633,2343,2270,5799],"class_list":["post-40834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-mexico","category-monographs","category-religion","tag-afro-mexicans","tag-afromexicans","tag-nicole-von-germeten","tag-university-press-of-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40834","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=40834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51312,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40834\/revisions\/51312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}