{"id":41029,"date":"2015-05-05T01:25:24","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T01:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=41029"},"modified":"2020-09-17T18:37:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T18:37:17","slug":"from-chains-to-chiles-an-elite-afro-indigenous-couple-in-colonial-mexico-1641-1688","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41029","title":{"rendered":"From Chains to Chiles: An Elite Afro-Indigenous Couple in Colonial Mexico, 1641\u20131688"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1215\/00141801-2854356\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>From Chains to Chiles: An Elite Afro-Indigenous Couple in Colonial Mexico, 1641\u20131688<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ethnohistory.dukejournals.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ethnohistory<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ethnohistory.dukejournals.org\/content\/62\/2.toc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Volume 62, Number 2, April 2015<\/a><br \/>\npages 361-384<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1215\/00141801-2854356\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">10.1215\/00141801-2854356<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/his\/faculty\/sierra_pablo\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>University of Rochester<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This article explores the life of an elite Afro-indigenous couple in the city of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Puebla,_Puebla\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Puebla de los \u00c1ngeles<\/a> during the seventeenth century. Through the study of a freedman, Felipe Mons\u00f3n y Mojica, and his indigenous wife, Juana Mar\u00eda de la Cruz, I propose a new approach to the study of the African diaspora in the urban centers of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Spain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Spain<\/a> (colonial Mexico). By combining an extensive corpus of notarial, judicial, and parochial records with isolated references to Puebla&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nahuatl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nahuatl-language<\/a> annals, this article also sheds light on city-dwelling native women who married enslaved men. I argue that formal unions of this type held enormous social, political, and commercial potential for Afro-indigenous couples to emerge as new political actors and urban patrons. In particular, the Mons\u00f3n de la Cruz household rose to a position of preeminence in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pardo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>pardo<\/em><\/a> religious and military corporations through commerce in indigenous agricultural products.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/ethnohistory.dukejournals.org\/content\/62\/2\/361.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Chains to Chiles: An Elite Afro-Indigenous Couple in Colonial Mexico, 1641\u20131688 Ethnohistory Volume 62, Number 2, April 2015 pages 361-384 DOI: 10.1215\/00141801-2854356 Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva, Assistant Professor of History University of Rochester This article explores the life of an elite Afro-indigenous couple in the city of Puebla de los \u00c1ngeles during the seventeenth [&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":[5268,20015,20016,20017,20013,20014],"class_list":["post-41029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-mexico","tag-ethnohistory","tag-felipe-monson-y-mojica","tag-juana-maria-de-la-cruz","tag-new-spain","tag-pablo-miguel-sierra-silva","tag-puebla-de-los-angeles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41029","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=41029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60194,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41029\/revisions\/60194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}