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Loss of Indigeneity & Blackness in New Spain


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In this episode I dive into the reasons why many Latinos/Hispanics are not aware of their native and Black ancestry.    

References 

Bennett, Herman L. 2010. Colonial Blackness: A History of Afro-Mexico. N.p.: Indiana University Press.  

Diaz del Castillo, Bernal. 2020. The Conquest of New Spain. Translated by John M. Cohen. N.p.: Martino Fine Books. 

 Greenleaf, Richard E. 1965. “The Inquisition and the Indians of New Spain: A Study in Jurisdictional Confusion.” The Americas 22, no. 2 (October): 138-166. https://www.jstor.org/stable/979238.  

Lokken, Paul. 2001. “Marriage as Slave Emancipation in Seventeenth-Century Rural Guatemala.” The Americas 58, no. 2 (October): 175-200. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1007964.  

Martinez, Maria E. 2004. “The Black Blood of New Spain: Limpieza de Sangre, Racial Violence, and Gendered Power in Early Colonial Mexico.” The William and Mary Quarterly 61, no. 3 (July): 479-520. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3491806.  

Yeagar, Timothy J. 1995. “Encomienda or Slavery? The Spanish Crown's Choice of Labor Organization in Sixteenth-Century Spanish America.” The Journal of Economic History 55, no. 4 (December): 842-859. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2123819.

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