Norah L A Gharala
Biographic Data
| ID | 707815 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Norah L A Gharala |
| GIVEN NAMES | Norah L A |
| FAMILY NAME | Gharala |
| SIGNATURE | GHARALA N L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Houston |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8012-6636 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Afro-Mexican Lives in the Long Nineteenth Century
Taxing Difference in Peru and New Spain (16th-19th Century)
The question of who would pay tribute loomed large in the Spanish Empire for hundreds of years. Authorities used taxpayer statuses to classify and extract resources from free people, especially in regions with dense Indigenous populations. Families with African ancestors also paid a price for their freedom in the form of a tribute tax. Taxing Difference in Peru and New Spain (16th–19th Century): Fiscal Petitions Negotiating Social Differences and…
From Mozambique in Indies of Portugal’
Between the mid-sixteenth and late-seventeenth centuries, a minority of enslaved people in Spanish America came from the western Indian Ocean world. Europeans trafficked “ Mozambiques ” into central Mexico as early as the 1540s, but the terms connecting people to Eastern Africa remained nebulous to imperial authorities. Changeable and malleable, terms like “ mozambique ” or “ cafre de pasa ” circulated widely and developed layers of meaning as en…
Larissa Brewer-García. Beyond Babel
In Beyond Babel: Translations of Blackness in Colonial Peru and New Granada, Larissa Brewer-García focuses on Black spiritual intermediaries and interpreters to recover ideas that diverge in significant ways from many baroque texts. The book argues that this influential group of African and Afrodescendant men and women promoted their own positive characterizations of Blackness in seventeenth-century Peru and New Granada. Beyond Babel introduces a…
This woman’s resistance to her son’s paying tribute”
This article focuses on how women of African descent responded to colonial taxation. From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, free Afrodescendants were subject to a royal tribute tax based on their African ancestry. This tribute was also based on genealogy, gender, and family. The article argues that women petitioners referred to their marriages as evidence of their exempt tributary status, as they sought to mitigate the effects of tribute…
Taxing Blackness
Not even blood mixture could make them unworthy”
This article examines the shifting meanings of calidad and political loyalty as they applied to tributary status in Bourbon New Spain. While tribute had long remained a symbol of the relationship between crown and subject, Bourbon bureaucrats began to employ the language of calidad to explain tributary obligations. The use of calidad led to the creation of a robust tributary population that by mid-century produced record amounts of revenue. Despi…
From Mozambique in Indies of Portugal’
Between the mid-sixteenth and late-seventeenth centuries, a minority of enslaved people in Spanish America came from the western Indian Ocean world. Europeans trafficked “ Mozambiques ” into central Mexico as early as the 1540s, but the terms connecting people to Eastern Africa remained nebulous to imperial authorities. Changeable and malleable, terms like “ mozambique ” or “ cafre de pasa ” circulated widely and developed layers of meaning as en…
Not even blood mixture could make them unworthy”
This article examines the shifting meanings of calidad and political loyalty as they applied to tributary status in Bourbon New Spain. While tribute had long remained a symbol of the relationship between crown and subject, Bourbon bureaucrats began to employ the language of calidad to explain tributary obligations. The use of calidad led to the creation of a robust tributary population that by mid-century produced record amounts of revenue. Despi…
Taxing Blackness
From Mozambique in Indies of Portugal’
Between the mid-sixteenth and late-seventeenth centuries, a minority of enslaved people in Spanish America came from the western Indian Ocean world. Europeans trafficked “ Mozambiques ” into central Mexico as early as the 1540s, but the terms connecting people to Eastern Africa remained nebulous to imperial authorities. Changeable and malleable, terms like “ mozambique ” or “ cafre de pasa ” circulated widely and developed layers of meaning as en…
Larissa Brewer-García. Beyond Babel
In Beyond Babel: Translations of Blackness in Colonial Peru and New Granada, Larissa Brewer-García focuses on Black spiritual intermediaries and interpreters to recover ideas that diverge in significant ways from many baroque texts. The book argues that this influential group of African and Afrodescendant men and women promoted their own positive characterizations of Blackness in seventeenth-century Peru and New Granada. Beyond Babel introduces a…
This woman’s resistance to her son’s paying tribute”
This article focuses on how women of African descent responded to colonial taxation. From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, free Afrodescendants were subject to a royal tribute tax based on their African ancestry. This tribute was also based on genealogy, gender, and family. The article argues that women petitioners referred to their marriages as evidence of their exempt tributary status, as they sought to mitigate the effects of tribute…
Taxing Difference in Peru and New Spain (16th-19th Century)
The question of who would pay tribute loomed large in the Spanish Empire for hundreds of years. Authorities used taxpayer statuses to classify and extract resources from free people, especially in regions with dense Indigenous populations. Families with African ancestors also paid a price for their freedom in the form of a tribute tax. Taxing Difference in Peru and New Spain (16th–19th Century): Fiscal Petitions Negotiating Social Differences and…
Afro-Mexican Lives in the Long Nineteenth Century
Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (3 works) · History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)