Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Introduction Sherwin K. Bryant, Ben Vinson III, and Rachel Sarah O'Toole
  • Part 1. Complicating Identity in the African Diaspora to Spanish America
  • 1. The Shape of a Diaspora: The Movement of Afro-Iberians to Colonial Spanish America Leo J. Garofal
  • 2. African Diasporic Ethnicity in Mexico City to 1650 Frank "Trey" Proctor III
  • 3. To Be Free and Lucumí: Ana de la Calle and Making African Diaspora Identities in Colonial Peru Ra
  • Part 2. Royal Subjects, Loyal Christians, and Saints in the Alley
  • 4. Between the Cross and the Sword: Religious Conquest and Maroon Legitimacy in Colonial Esmeraldas-
  • 5. Afro-Mexican Saintly Devotion in a Mexico City Alley Joan C. Bristol
  • 6. "The Lord walks among the pots and pans": Religious Servants of Colonial Lima Nancy E. van Deusen
  • Part 3. Comparisons and Whitening Revisited: Race and Gender in Colonial Cuba
  • 7. Whitening Revisited: Nineteenth-Century Cuban Counterpoints Karen Y. Morrison
  • 8. Tensions of Race, Gender, and Midwifery in Colonial Cuba Michele Reid-Vazquez
  • 9. The African American Experience in Comparative Perspective: The Current Question of the Debate He
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • List of Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index
  • back cover