Michelle A Mckinley
Biographic Data
| ID | 1266728 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michelle A Mckinley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michelle A |
| FAMILY NAME | Mckinley |
| SIGNATURE | MCKINLEY M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oregon |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9622-9939 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
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On Afropolitans and Creole Cosmopolitans
Exploring the world of food with families
Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the social and environmental factors involved in the food decision-making processes of families living on lower incomes on the Island of Ireland. Design: A qualitative design was employed for this study, using photovoice and creative mapping methods. Parents were requested to take photos and draw maps of their food environments. Interviews were then conducted with parents, using the materials pr…
Financing Freedom
This article explores cases in which slaveholders, enslaved and freed people, and courts battled over the customary interpretation of the rights of wage-earning slaves in seventeenth-century Andalucía. Throughout the Spanish Empire, enslaved people could purchase their freedom through the processes of cortación (later known as coartación ) and ransom ( rescate ). People paid their purchase price in installments and eventually received freedom pap…
Esclavitud, cultura jurídica y experiencias ambiguas en Hispanoamérica
Presentación del número 44. Este número especial de Historia y Sociedad presenta a sus lectores evidencia y análisis sobre la naturaleza ambigua de las vivencias jurídicas de muchos esclavizados en Hispanoamérica. Cuando esas personas estuvieron delante de los magistrados y delante de la ley, su destino, por lo general, no dependía únicamente de la aplicación precisa de una jurisdicción, norma, o principio legal establecidos de antemano y entendi…
Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico
This is a beautifully rendered, deeply engaged study of slavery in Puebla de los Angeles. Puebla is a city famous for its mole poblano, Baroque architecture and picturesque ceramic tiles—but not for its enslaved Afro-descendants and Asian historical presence. Indeed, as Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva points out, while most Poblanos know about the saintly china poblana, ‘it has never been explained to [them] why she was a slave in Puebla’ in the sevent…
Bianca Premo. The Enlightenment on Trial
The litigiousness of dependents in the Iberian empire is a subject of prolific scholarship. Enslaved peoples, widows, indigenous and Andean subjects, disgruntled caciques, as well as petty nobles and wealthy merchants demonstrated a passion for prolonged and convoluted litigation. Reams of paper shuttled back and forth from the Iberian Peninsula to the Americas, linking the two in a contiguous spatio-legal universe with a plethora of laws and leg…
Libertad en la pila bautismal
“Sepan quantos esta carta vieren como yo Dona Maria de la Asuncion, viuda de Fernando Lopez de Miranda, moradora en esta ciudad de los Reyes del Peru digo que por quanto tengo por mi esclavo a un Zambillo nombrado Francisco que sera de diecisiete oras que nacio en mi casa ayer en la noche a las ocho de Catalina Miranda morena criolla mi esclava... y porque a la susodicha tengo mucho amor y voluntad por aberme servido con puntualidad, fidelidad y …
Fractional Freedoms
Fractional Freedoms explores how thousands of slaves in colonial Peru were able to secure their freedom, keep their families intact, negotiate lower self-purchase prices, and arrange transfers of ownership by filing legal claims. Through extensive archival research, Michelle A. McKinley excavates the experiences of enslaved women whose historical footprint is barely visible in the official record. She complicates the way we think about life under…
Illicit Intimacies
This article examines the ways that plebeian women confessed to concubinary relationships in seventeenth-century Lima. Part One reviews complaints brought by casta and enslaved concubines to enforce matrimonial promises. Part Two analyzes the imprecise laws and policies of the canonists on concubinage. Part Three considers the Church’s inquisitorial function in policing interethnic intimacies, given the virtual synonymity of illegitimacy and conc…
Till Death Do Us Part
This article joins a long-standing conversation among slavery scholars regarding the tensions that emerged from the legal status of slaves as property and as persons. This feature of quasi-personhood and property was perhaps most pronounced in the testamentary devise of freedom granted by slave owners. Posthumous bequests of freedom simultaneously recognised the property rights of the deceased in human beings, while validating the affective ties …
Fractional Freedoms
This article examines the ways in which enslaved litigants engaged with the ecclesiastical courts in 17th century colonial Lima. The article analyzes a sample of the types of litigation instigated by Peruvian slaves to assert their conjugal rights, to effect transfers of ownership, and to enforce oral promises of manumission. It also deals with complaints of domestic violence, abandonment, destitution, and infidelity brought by enslaved women. Th…
Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of Citizenship
Book Review| October 01 2010 Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of Citizenship Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of Citizenship. Edited by Rachel Ida Buff. New York: New York University Press, 2008. x + 446 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $79 (cloth); $26 (paper). Michelle McKinley Michelle McKinley University of Oregon School of Law Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2010) 30 (1): 124–1…
Planning Other Families
This article examines the ways in which globally driven population policies are experienced by rural, indigenous women in Amazonian communities on the periphery of formal, political power. As with other global development processes, population programs are actively resisted, accepted, and modified by the women who are their intended "targets." Through a nuanced exploration of the interface of indigenous identity with the discourse of empowerment …
In Our Own Voices
This article examines the political and social implications of broadening public discourse and facilitating a collective mediated space in which gendered inequities, interests, and identities are debated via the feminist reproductive health radio program Bienvenida Salud! The article describes the mediascape in rural and indigenous Peruvian Amazonian communities and the ways in which feminist reproductive rights discourse has been introduced and …
Intercambios en litigio
Este artículo explora las relaciones de intercambio entre las comunidades indígenas de la Amazonia peruana y los patrones locales, centrándose en el caso de cuatro comunidades Urarina, relacionadas entre sí y ubicadas en la cuenca del río Chambira, en el departamento de Loreto (en el nororicnte peruano). De manera particular, el artículo presenta el caso de la disputa entre 5 jóvenes Urarina y su patrón. Si bien es cierto que la mayoría de las co…
Fostering Reproductive Health Through Entertainment?Education in the Peruvian Amazon
Baseline survey data are integrated into an ethnographic understanding of locally situated knowledge to evaluate how radio entertainment-education regarding reproductive health is socially constructed in the riverine communities of the Peruvian Amazon. Focus group interviews, sustained participant observation, in-depth interviews, letters from radio listeners, and input from trained peer promoters complement the survey data. Employment of cultura…
The Amazonian Peoples' Resources Initiative
Bartholomew Dean, Eliana Elías Valdeavellano, Michelle McKinley, Rebekah Saul, The Amazonian Peoples' Resources Initiative: Promoting Reproductive Rights and Community Development in the Peruvian Amazon, Health and Human Rights, Vol. 4, No. 2, Reproductive and Sexual Rights (2000), pp. 219-226
Life Stories, Disclosure and the Law
Life Stories, Disclosure and the Law
Till Death Do Us Part
This article joins a long-standing conversation among slavery scholars regarding the tensions that emerged from the legal status of slaves as property and as persons. This feature of quasi-personhood and property was perhaps most pronounced in the testamentary devise of freedom granted by slave owners. Posthumous bequests of freedom simultaneously recognised the property rights of the deceased in human beings, while validating the affective ties …
Fostering Reproductive Health Through Entertainment?Education in the Peruvian Amazon
Baseline survey data are integrated into an ethnographic understanding of locally situated knowledge to evaluate how radio entertainment-education regarding reproductive health is socially constructed in the riverine communities of the Peruvian Amazon. Focus group interviews, sustained participant observation, in-depth interviews, letters from radio listeners, and input from trained peer promoters complement the survey data. Employment of cultura…
Illicit Intimacies
This article examines the ways that plebeian women confessed to concubinary relationships in seventeenth-century Lima. Part One reviews complaints brought by casta and enslaved concubines to enforce matrimonial promises. Part Two analyzes the imprecise laws and policies of the canonists on concubinage. Part Three considers the Church’s inquisitorial function in policing interethnic intimacies, given the virtual synonymity of illegitimacy and conc…
Fractional Freedoms
This article examines the ways in which enslaved litigants engaged with the ecclesiastical courts in 17th century colonial Lima. The article analyzes a sample of the types of litigation instigated by Peruvian slaves to assert their conjugal rights, to effect transfers of ownership, and to enforce oral promises of manumission. It also deals with complaints of domestic violence, abandonment, destitution, and infidelity brought by enslaved women. Th…
The Amazonian Peoples' Resources Initiative
Bartholomew Dean, Eliana Elías Valdeavellano, Michelle McKinley, Rebekah Saul, The Amazonian Peoples' Resources Initiative: Promoting Reproductive Rights and Community Development in the Peruvian Amazon, Health and Human Rights, Vol. 4, No. 2, Reproductive and Sexual Rights (2000), pp. 219-226
Libertad en la pila bautismal
“Sepan quantos esta carta vieren como yo Dona Maria de la Asuncion, viuda de Fernando Lopez de Miranda, moradora en esta ciudad de los Reyes del Peru digo que por quanto tengo por mi esclavo a un Zambillo nombrado Francisco que sera de diecisiete oras que nacio en mi casa ayer en la noche a las ocho de Catalina Miranda morena criolla mi esclava... y porque a la susodicha tengo mucho amor y voluntad por aberme servido con puntualidad, fidelidad y …
Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of Citizenship
Book Review| October 01 2010 Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of Citizenship Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of Citizenship. Edited by Rachel Ida Buff. New York: New York University Press, 2008. x + 446 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $79 (cloth); $26 (paper). Michelle McKinley Michelle McKinley University of Oregon School of Law Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2010) 30 (1): 124–1…
In Our Own Voices
This article examines the political and social implications of broadening public discourse and facilitating a collective mediated space in which gendered inequities, interests, and identities are debated via the feminist reproductive health radio program Bienvenida Salud! The article describes the mediascape in rural and indigenous Peruvian Amazonian communities and the ways in which feminist reproductive rights discourse has been introduced and …
Intercambios en litigio
Este artículo explora las relaciones de intercambio entre las comunidades indígenas de la Amazonia peruana y los patrones locales, centrándose en el caso de cuatro comunidades Urarina, relacionadas entre sí y ubicadas en la cuenca del río Chambira, en el departamento de Loreto (en el nororicnte peruano). De manera particular, el artículo presenta el caso de la disputa entre 5 jóvenes Urarina y su patrón. Si bien es cierto que la mayoría de las co…
Life Stories, Disclosure and the Law
The Amazonian Peoples' Resources Initiative
Bartholomew Dean, Eliana Elías Valdeavellano, Michelle McKinley, Rebekah Saul, The Amazonian Peoples' Resources Initiative: Promoting Reproductive Rights and Community Development in the Peruvian Amazon, Health and Human Rights, Vol. 4, No. 2, Reproductive and Sexual Rights (2000), pp. 219-226
Fostering Reproductive Health Through Entertainment?Education in the Peruvian Amazon
Baseline survey data are integrated into an ethnographic understanding of locally situated knowledge to evaluate how radio entertainment-education regarding reproductive health is socially constructed in the riverine communities of the Peruvian Amazon. Focus group interviews, sustained participant observation, in-depth interviews, letters from radio listeners, and input from trained peer promoters complement the survey data. Employment of cultura…
Planning Other Families
This article examines the ways in which globally driven population policies are experienced by rural, indigenous women in Amazonian communities on the periphery of formal, political power. As with other global development processes, population programs are actively resisted, accepted, and modified by the women who are their intended "targets." Through a nuanced exploration of the interface of indigenous identity with the discourse of empowerment …
In Our Own Voices
This article examines the political and social implications of broadening public discourse and facilitating a collective mediated space in which gendered inequities, interests, and identities are debated via the feminist reproductive health radio program Bienvenida Salud! The article describes the mediascape in rural and indigenous Peruvian Amazonian communities and the ways in which feminist reproductive rights discourse has been introduced and …
Intercambios en litigio
Este artículo explora las relaciones de intercambio entre las comunidades indígenas de la Amazonia peruana y los patrones locales, centrándose en el caso de cuatro comunidades Urarina, relacionadas entre sí y ubicadas en la cuenca del río Chambira, en el departamento de Loreto (en el nororicnte peruano). De manera particular, el artículo presenta el caso de la disputa entre 5 jóvenes Urarina y su patrón. Si bien es cierto que la mayoría de las co…
Fractional Freedoms
This article examines the ways in which enslaved litigants engaged with the ecclesiastical courts in 17th century colonial Lima. The article analyzes a sample of the types of litigation instigated by Peruvian slaves to assert their conjugal rights, to effect transfers of ownership, and to enforce oral promises of manumission. It also deals with complaints of domestic violence, abandonment, destitution, and infidelity brought by enslaved women. Th…
Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of Citizenship
Book Review| October 01 2010 Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of Citizenship Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of Citizenship. Edited by Rachel Ida Buff. New York: New York University Press, 2008. x + 446 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $79 (cloth); $26 (paper). Michelle McKinley Michelle McKinley University of Oregon School of Law Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2010) 30 (1): 124–1…
Till Death Do Us Part
This article joins a long-standing conversation among slavery scholars regarding the tensions that emerged from the legal status of slaves as property and as persons. This feature of quasi-personhood and property was perhaps most pronounced in the testamentary devise of freedom granted by slave owners. Posthumous bequests of freedom simultaneously recognised the property rights of the deceased in human beings, while validating the affective ties …
Illicit Intimacies
This article examines the ways that plebeian women confessed to concubinary relationships in seventeenth-century Lima. Part One reviews complaints brought by casta and enslaved concubines to enforce matrimonial promises. Part Two analyzes the imprecise laws and policies of the canonists on concubinage. Part Three considers the Church’s inquisitorial function in policing interethnic intimacies, given the virtual synonymity of illegitimacy and conc…
Fractional Freedoms
Fractional Freedoms explores how thousands of slaves in colonial Peru were able to secure their freedom, keep their families intact, negotiate lower self-purchase prices, and arrange transfers of ownership by filing legal claims. Through extensive archival research, Michelle A. McKinley excavates the experiences of enslaved women whose historical footprint is barely visible in the official record. She complicates the way we think about life under…
Libertad en la pila bautismal
“Sepan quantos esta carta vieren como yo Dona Maria de la Asuncion, viuda de Fernando Lopez de Miranda, moradora en esta ciudad de los Reyes del Peru digo que por quanto tengo por mi esclavo a un Zambillo nombrado Francisco que sera de diecisiete oras que nacio en mi casa ayer en la noche a las ocho de Catalina Miranda morena criolla mi esclava... y porque a la susodicha tengo mucho amor y voluntad por aberme servido con puntualidad, fidelidad y …
Bianca Premo. The Enlightenment on Trial
The litigiousness of dependents in the Iberian empire is a subject of prolific scholarship. Enslaved peoples, widows, indigenous and Andean subjects, disgruntled caciques, as well as petty nobles and wealthy merchants demonstrated a passion for prolonged and convoluted litigation. Reams of paper shuttled back and forth from the Iberian Peninsula to the Americas, linking the two in a contiguous spatio-legal universe with a plethora of laws and leg…
Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico
This is a beautifully rendered, deeply engaged study of slavery in Puebla de los Angeles. Puebla is a city famous for its mole poblano, Baroque architecture and picturesque ceramic tiles—but not for its enslaved Afro-descendants and Asian historical presence. Indeed, as Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva points out, while most Poblanos know about the saintly china poblana, ‘it has never been explained to [them] why she was a slave in Puebla’ in the sevent…
Esclavitud, cultura jurídica y experiencias ambiguas en Hispanoamérica
Presentación del número 44. Este número especial de Historia y Sociedad presenta a sus lectores evidencia y análisis sobre la naturaleza ambigua de las vivencias jurídicas de muchos esclavizados en Hispanoamérica. Cuando esas personas estuvieron delante de los magistrados y delante de la ley, su destino, por lo general, no dependía únicamente de la aplicación precisa de una jurisdicción, norma, o principio legal establecidos de antemano y entendi…
On Afropolitans and Creole Cosmopolitans
Exploring the world of food with families
Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the social and environmental factors involved in the food decision-making processes of families living on lower incomes on the Island of Ireland. Design: A qualitative design was employed for this study, using photovoice and creative mapping methods. Parents were requested to take photos and draw maps of their food environments. Interviews were then conducted with parents, using the materials pr…
Financing Freedom
This article explores cases in which slaveholders, enslaved and freed people, and courts battled over the customary interpretation of the rights of wage-earning slaves in seventeenth-century Andalucía. Throughout the Spanish Empire, enslaved people could purchase their freedom through the processes of cortación (later known as coartación ) and ransom ( rescate ). People paid their purchase price in installments and eventually received freedom pap…
Bound biographies
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Colonialism (6 works) · History (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (5 works) · Amazon rainforest (4 works)