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Africans and Afro-Descendants on the Edges of Colonial Spanish America
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At the Heart of the Borderlands is the first book-length study of Africans and Afro-descendants in the frontiers of Spanish America. While people of African descent have formed part of most borderlands' histories, this study recognizes and explains their critical contribution to the formation of frontier spaces. Lack of imperial control coupled with Spain's desperation for settlers and soldiers in frontier areas facilitated the social mobility of Afro-descendants. This need allowed African descendants to become not just members of borderland societies but leaders of it as well. They were essential actors in helping to shape the limits of the Spanish empire. Africans and Afro-descendants built, opposed, and shaped Spanish hegemony in the borderlands, taking on roles that would have been impossible or difficult in colonial centers due to the socio-racial hierarchy of imperial policies and practices.

Author Biography:

Cameron D. Jones is an award-winning author whose publications include In Service of Two Masters: The Missionaries of Ocopa, Indigenous Resistance, and Spanish Governance in Bourbon Peru. He teaches at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California. Jay T. Harrison is an associate professor and the chair of the department of history at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland, where he also directs the college's program in public history. He is the coauthor of Almost Heaven: Fifty Years of Purgatory and the coeditor of The Franciscans in Colonial Mexico.
Release date Australia
April 30th, 2023
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributors
  • Edited by Cameron D. Jones
  • Edited by Jay T. Harrison
Pages
272
ISBN-13
9780826364753
Product ID
36054232

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