So color de una cofradía’

Catholic Confraternities and the Development of Afro-Peruvian Ethnicities in Early Colonial Peru

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9322650
AutoresKaren B Graubart (0000-0002-2919-6794, Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2011
Volumen33
Número1
Páginas43-64
Fecha de publicación2011-09-24
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSlavery and Abolition (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0144-039X • E-ISSN: 1743-9523
EditorialFrank Cass & Co (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1080/0144039x.2011.606620
OpenAlexW2021181946
IdiomaES
Citas recibidas15

Enslaved and free Africans in Lima, Peru, joined Catholic cofradías (religious sodalities) in order to form community. As they did this, they also discovered and created fissures within their number. Early cofradía records demonstrate how Afro-descent communities drew upon their contemporary experiences, including adapting the European rhetoric of ‘difference’ deployed against them to identify and police their own divisions during the first century of the institutionalisation of African slavery in Spanish America. These documents also provide us with a history of how African ‘ethnicities’ came to be central to diasporic identities

African descent · Archaeology · Colonialism · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Institutionalisation · Political science · Rhetoric · Sociology · Theology · Anthropology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Gender Studies · Hispanic-African Historical Relations · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society