Research Catalog
Taxing Blackness : free Afromexican tribute in Bourbon New Spain
- Title
- Taxing Blackness : free Afromexican tribute in Bourbon New Spain / Norah L.A. Gharala.
- Author
- Gharala, Norah L. A. (Norah Linda Andrews), 1985-
- Publication
- Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, [2019]
- ©2019
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc E 19-687 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Details
- Description
- xii, 292 pages : illustrations, maps, genealogical tables; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "History in North, Central, and South Americas. In the Bourbon New Spain (Mexico), taxes, including those from Mexicans of African descent who were free, were a rich, reliable source of revenue for the Crown. Taxing Blackness examines the experiences of Afromexicans and this tribute to get at the meanings of race, political loyalty, and legal privileges within the Spanish colonial regime. Gharala focuses on both the mechanisms officials used to define the status of free people of African descent as well as the responses of free-colored people to these categories and strategies. Her study spans the eighteenth century and focuses on a single institution to offer readers a closer look at the place of free-colored people in Mexico, which was the most profitable and populous colony of the Spanish Atlantic"--
- Series Statement
- Atlantic crossings
- Uniform Title
- Atlantic crossings.
- Subjects
- Social status
- Free blacks
- Taxation
- Mexico
- Mexico > Economic conditions > 18th century
- Free blacks > Mexico > Genealogy
- Social status > Mexico > History > 18th century
- Free blacks > Mexico > Social conditions > 18th century
- Economic history
- Mexico > History > Spanish colony, 1540-1810
- Taxation > Mexico > History > 18th century
- Race relations
- Mexico > Race relations > History > 18th century
- 1540-1810
- Allegiance > Economic aspects > Mexico > History > 18th century
- History
- Free blacks > Mexico > Economic conditions > 18th century
- Genealogy
- Genre/Form
- Genealogy.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-283) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Tribute and Calidad in the Spanish Empire -- Revitalization and reaction : Afromexican tribute before 1763 -- Sons of Hidalgos or ringleaders of the Indians? : defining tributary genealogies -- Imperial knowledge and the expansion of tribute -- Mapping community on the Afromexican tribute register -- Genealogy and disputed tributary status -- Conclusion.
- Call Number
- Sc E 19-687
- ISBN
- 9780817320072
- 0817320075
- 9780817392208 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018029656
- OCLC
- 1042356483
- Author
- Gharala, Norah L. A. (Norah Linda Andrews), 1985- author.
- Title
- Taxing Blackness : free Afromexican tribute in Bourbon New Spain / Norah L.A. Gharala.
- Publisher
- Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Atlantic crossingsAtlantic crossings.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-283) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1540-1810
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 19-687