{"id":63371,"date":"2022-04-21T17:01:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63371"},"modified":"2022-04-21T17:03:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T17:03:10","slug":"the-capital-of-free-women-race-legitimacy-and-liberty-in-colonial-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63371","title":{"rendered":"The Capital of Free Women: Race, Legitimacy, and Liberty in Colonial Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yalebooks.yale.edu\/book\/9780300258066\/capital-free-women\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>The Capital of Free Women: Race, Legitimacy, and Liberty in Colonial Mexico<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yalebooks.yale.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yale University Press<\/a><br \/>\n2022-04-12<br \/>\n296 pages, 5 1\/2 x 8 1\/2<br \/>\n9 b\/w illustrations<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN: 9780300258066<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrDanielleTW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Danielle Terrazas Williams<\/strong><\/a>, Lecturer in the School of History<br \/>\n<em>University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yalebooks.yale.edu\/book\/9780300258066\/capital-free-women\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/yalebooks.yale.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/book_jacket\/public\/imagecache\/external\/9912e5bf52301fa0e9c0db25b64581b7.jpg\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A restoration of the agency and influence of free African-descended women in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Spain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">colonial Mexico<\/a> through their traces in archives<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Capital of Free Women<\/em> examines how African-descended women strove for dignity in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Spain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seventeenth-century Mexico<\/a>. Free women in central <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Veracruz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Veracruz<\/a>, sometimes just one generation removed from slavery, purchased land, ran businesses, managed intergenerational wealth, and owned slaves of African descent. Drawing from archives in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mexico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mexico<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spain<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Italy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Italy<\/a>, Danielle Terrazas Williams explores the lives of African-descended women across the economic spectrum, evaluates their elite sensibilities, and challenges notions of race and class in the colonial period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A restoration of the agency and influence of free African-descended women in colonial Mexico through their traces in archives<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,21,459,8,103,17,25],"tags":[4633,33220,20017,7064,1424],"class_list":["post-63371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-mexico","category-monographs","category-women","tag-afro-mexicans","tag-danielle-terrazas-williams","tag-new-spain","tag-veracruz","tag-yale-university-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63371","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=63371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63388,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63371\/revisions\/63388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}