David M Stark
Biographic Data
| ID | 713029 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David M Stark |
| GIVEN NAMES | David M |
| FAMILY NAME | Stark |
| SIGNATURE | STARK D M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Grand Valley State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6859-6328 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Confronting Confederate Monuments: Place-Based Pedagogy for Anti-Racist Preaching
Space wins" is a long-held homiletical maxim. Usually, this means that architecture and pulpit style influence how sermons are delivered and heard. What is less frequently considered is how monuments and memorials affect proclamation in space. Among other things, Confederate monuments make claims on space, communicate idealized aesthetics, and preach about hopes for a particular eschatological community. This essay examines pedagogical approaches…
Genesis 50: 15-21
Whiteness and the So-Called Problem of Preaching the Old Testament
This article explores the long-lamented problem of preaching the Old Testament in light of recent conversations about Whiteness in the Academy of Homiletics. Through an overview of the way the problem of the Old Testament is framed, I argue that Whiteness harmfully amplifies the quantity and severity of Old Testament problems encountered. Then, looking at several significant approaches to preaching the Old Testament, I argue that Whiteness contri…
Crossing the Threshold from Adolescence to Adulthood in Eighteenth-Century Puerto Rico: The Baptismal Sponsorship of Enslaved Infants in Arecibo, 1735-1772
This study examines godparent selection patterns by the parents of 632 slaves baptized in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, from 1735 to 1772. The article broadens our understanding of baptismal sponsorship by using family reconstitution to re-create demographic patterns of behavior, including age and marital status, associated with godparenthood. Data regarding the godparents revealed considerable diversity in age, but most were under the age of 30. Godpare…
Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640
The history of the early Spanish Caribbean is often viewed through a sugar-centered framework, in which the historiography of the region foregrounds the experience of enslaved Africans and their descendants laboring on sugar plantations. Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean challenges this assumption on two levels: economic activity throughout the Caribbean was not limited to sugar cultivation and its attendant production, and African slaves…
Preparing for the afterlife: Death, dying, and religious practice in eighteenth-century Puerto Rico
Every society possesses deeply rooted attitudes about death, yet much of what we know about the religious practices of ordinary people in colonial Latin America overlooks the way(s) in which people prepared for death and the afterlife. Sacramental records from eighteenth-century Puerto Rican communities provide insights into both religious elements and social aspects of death. The time period selected is important because new sensibilities toward…
Teresita A. Levy. Puerto Ricans in the Empire: Tobacco Growers and U.S. Colonialism
Despite the fact that Puerto Rico was part of the American empire for 117 years, the question of whether association with the U.S. has had a positive or negative impact on the island is still relevant. Puerto Ricans in the Empire: Tobacco Growers and U.S. Colonialism speaks to that debate by providing a new perspective on the years 1898 to 1940. Scholars have used the “sugar narrative” as an analytical framework for examining Puerto Rico’s agricu…
Purchasing Whiteness: Pardos, Mulattos, and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish Indies, written by Ann Twinam
Slave Families and the Hato Economy in Puerto Rico
Ties that Bind: Baptismal Sponsorship of Slaves in Eighteenth-Century Puerto Rico
This study broadens our understanding of baptismal sponsorship for slave infants by utilizing family reconstitution to recreate the vital statistics of godparents as well as demographic patterns of behaviour associated with godparenthood in Arecibo (Puerto Rico) from 1735 to 1772. The examination of who served as godparents and why they did so provides insights into the lived experience of enslaved populations. Frequent interaction of whites, bla…
Slave Families and the Hato Economy in Puerto Rico
It has long been assumed that sugar cultivation and its attendant production culture shaped the institutional and social framework of slavery throughout the Caribbean. Yet there was greater diversification of economic activities and contrasting conditions of servitude existed. This book expands the study of slavery outside the context of sugar, focusing on the peculiar characteristics of enslavement in areas where the agricultural economy was ori…
Making the Most of Their Time: Seasonality of Slave Marriage in Eighteenth-Century Puerto Rico
A New Look at the African Slave Trade in Puerto Rico Through the Use of Parish Registers: 1660–1815
Our knowledge of the volume of slave traffic as well as the geographic origin and ethnicity of slaves introduced into peripheral areas of the Americas, such as the former Spanish colony of Puerto Rico, is limited. Information contained in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century parish baptismal, marriage, and death registers enables us to locate and identify Africans in a number of island communities, including San Juan. Drawing upon data culled from…
Rescued from their Invisibility: The Afro-Puerto Ricans of Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century San Mateo de Cangrejos, Puerto Rico
The black “root” has been systematically “uprooted” from the main “trunk” of the Puerto Rican nation. Jorge Duany Scholars who study Puerto Rico's past have struggled with the question of how to define the island’s national identity. Is the essence of Puerto Rican identity rooted in Spain, does it have its origins in Africa, in the legacy of the native Tainos, or is it a product of two or all three of these? This polemical question has yet to be …
Discovering the Invisible Puerto Rican Slave Family: Demographic Evidence From the Eighteenth Century
Traditional notions that family life among slaves during the pre-plantation period in the non-Hispanic Caribbean was necessarily unstable are fading in light of new research. Although marriage among this segment of the population in Caguas, Cayey, San Germán, and Yauco—rural parishes in Puerto Rico—involved only a fraction of the overall number of marriages in these communities, the marriage of slaves was much more frequent than previously assume…
A New Look at the African Slave Trade in Puerto Rico Through the Use of Parish Registers: 1660–1815
Our knowledge of the volume of slave traffic as well as the geographic origin and ethnicity of slaves introduced into peripheral areas of the Americas, such as the former Spanish colony of Puerto Rico, is limited. Information contained in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century parish baptismal, marriage, and death registers enables us to locate and identify Africans in a number of island communities, including San Juan. Drawing upon data culled from…
Slave Families and the Hato Economy in Puerto Rico
It has long been assumed that sugar cultivation and its attendant production culture shaped the institutional and social framework of slavery throughout the Caribbean. Yet there was greater diversification of economic activities and contrasting conditions of servitude existed. This book expands the study of slavery outside the context of sugar, focusing on the peculiar characteristics of enslavement in areas where the agricultural economy was ori…
Rescued from their Invisibility: The Afro-Puerto Ricans of Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century San Mateo de Cangrejos, Puerto Rico
The black “root” has been systematically “uprooted” from the main “trunk” of the Puerto Rican nation. Jorge Duany Scholars who study Puerto Rico's past have struggled with the question of how to define the island’s national identity. Is the essence of Puerto Rican identity rooted in Spain, does it have its origins in Africa, in the legacy of the native Tainos, or is it a product of two or all three of these? This polemical question has yet to be …
Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640
The history of the early Spanish Caribbean is often viewed through a sugar-centered framework, in which the historiography of the region foregrounds the experience of enslaved Africans and their descendants laboring on sugar plantations. Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean challenges this assumption on two levels: economic activity throughout the Caribbean was not limited to sugar cultivation and its attendant production, and African slaves…
Confronting Confederate Monuments: Place-Based Pedagogy for Anti-Racist Preaching
Space wins" is a long-held homiletical maxim. Usually, this means that architecture and pulpit style influence how sermons are delivered and heard. What is less frequently considered is how monuments and memorials affect proclamation in space. Among other things, Confederate monuments make claims on space, communicate idealized aesthetics, and preach about hopes for a particular eschatological community. This essay examines pedagogical approaches…
Crossing the Threshold from Adolescence to Adulthood in Eighteenth-Century Puerto Rico: The Baptismal Sponsorship of Enslaved Infants in Arecibo, 1735-1772
This study examines godparent selection patterns by the parents of 632 slaves baptized in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, from 1735 to 1772. The article broadens our understanding of baptismal sponsorship by using family reconstitution to re-create demographic patterns of behavior, including age and marital status, associated with godparenthood. Data regarding the godparents revealed considerable diversity in age, but most were under the age of 30. Godpare…
Preparing for the afterlife: Death, dying, and religious practice in eighteenth-century Puerto Rico
Every society possesses deeply rooted attitudes about death, yet much of what we know about the religious practices of ordinary people in colonial Latin America overlooks the way(s) in which people prepared for death and the afterlife. Sacramental records from eighteenth-century Puerto Rican communities provide insights into both religious elements and social aspects of death. The time period selected is important because new sensibilities toward…
Ties that Bind: Baptismal Sponsorship of Slaves in Eighteenth-Century Puerto Rico
This study broadens our understanding of baptismal sponsorship for slave infants by utilizing family reconstitution to recreate the vital statistics of godparents as well as demographic patterns of behaviour associated with godparenthood in Arecibo (Puerto Rico) from 1735 to 1772. The examination of who served as godparents and why they did so provides insights into the lived experience of enslaved populations. Frequent interaction of whites, bla…
Making the Most of Their Time: Seasonality of Slave Marriage in Eighteenth-Century Puerto Rico
Discovering the Invisible Puerto Rican Slave Family: Demographic Evidence From the Eighteenth Century
Traditional notions that family life among slaves during the pre-plantation period in the non-Hispanic Caribbean was necessarily unstable are fading in light of new research. Although marriage among this segment of the population in Caguas, Cayey, San Germán, and Yauco—rural parishes in Puerto Rico—involved only a fraction of the overall number of marriages in these communities, the marriage of slaves was much more frequent than previously assume…
Rescued from their Invisibility: The Afro-Puerto Ricans of Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century San Mateo de Cangrejos, Puerto Rico
The black “root” has been systematically “uprooted” from the main “trunk” of the Puerto Rican nation. Jorge Duany Scholars who study Puerto Rico's past have struggled with the question of how to define the island’s national identity. Is the essence of Puerto Rican identity rooted in Spain, does it have its origins in Africa, in the legacy of the native Tainos, or is it a product of two or all three of these? This polemical question has yet to be …
A New Look at the African Slave Trade in Puerto Rico Through the Use of Parish Registers: 1660–1815
Our knowledge of the volume of slave traffic as well as the geographic origin and ethnicity of slaves introduced into peripheral areas of the Americas, such as the former Spanish colony of Puerto Rico, is limited. Information contained in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century parish baptismal, marriage, and death registers enables us to locate and identify Africans in a number of island communities, including San Juan. Drawing upon data culled from…
Making the Most of Their Time: Seasonality of Slave Marriage in Eighteenth-Century Puerto Rico
Slave Families and the Hato Economy in Puerto Rico
Ties that Bind: Baptismal Sponsorship of Slaves in Eighteenth-Century Puerto Rico
This study broadens our understanding of baptismal sponsorship for slave infants by utilizing family reconstitution to recreate the vital statistics of godparents as well as demographic patterns of behaviour associated with godparenthood in Arecibo (Puerto Rico) from 1735 to 1772. The examination of who served as godparents and why they did so provides insights into the lived experience of enslaved populations. Frequent interaction of whites, bla…
Slave Families and the Hato Economy in Puerto Rico
It has long been assumed that sugar cultivation and its attendant production culture shaped the institutional and social framework of slavery throughout the Caribbean. Yet there was greater diversification of economic activities and contrasting conditions of servitude existed. This book expands the study of slavery outside the context of sugar, focusing on the peculiar characteristics of enslavement in areas where the agricultural economy was ori…
Preparing for the afterlife: Death, dying, and religious practice in eighteenth-century Puerto Rico
Every society possesses deeply rooted attitudes about death, yet much of what we know about the religious practices of ordinary people in colonial Latin America overlooks the way(s) in which people prepared for death and the afterlife. Sacramental records from eighteenth-century Puerto Rican communities provide insights into both religious elements and social aspects of death. The time period selected is important because new sensibilities toward…
Teresita A. Levy. Puerto Ricans in the Empire: Tobacco Growers and U.S. Colonialism
Despite the fact that Puerto Rico was part of the American empire for 117 years, the question of whether association with the U.S. has had a positive or negative impact on the island is still relevant. Puerto Ricans in the Empire: Tobacco Growers and U.S. Colonialism speaks to that debate by providing a new perspective on the years 1898 to 1940. Scholars have used the “sugar narrative” as an analytical framework for examining Puerto Rico’s agricu…
Purchasing Whiteness: Pardos, Mulattos, and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish Indies, written by Ann Twinam
Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640
The history of the early Spanish Caribbean is often viewed through a sugar-centered framework, in which the historiography of the region foregrounds the experience of enslaved Africans and their descendants laboring on sugar plantations. Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean challenges this assumption on two levels: economic activity throughout the Caribbean was not limited to sugar cultivation and its attendant production, and African slaves…
Crossing the Threshold from Adolescence to Adulthood in Eighteenth-Century Puerto Rico: The Baptismal Sponsorship of Enslaved Infants in Arecibo, 1735-1772
This study examines godparent selection patterns by the parents of 632 slaves baptized in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, from 1735 to 1772. The article broadens our understanding of baptismal sponsorship by using family reconstitution to re-create demographic patterns of behavior, including age and marital status, associated with godparenthood. Data regarding the godparents revealed considerable diversity in age, but most were under the age of 30. Godpare…
Whiteness and the So-Called Problem of Preaching the Old Testament
This article explores the long-lamented problem of preaching the Old Testament in light of recent conversations about Whiteness in the Academy of Homiletics. Through an overview of the way the problem of the Old Testament is framed, I argue that Whiteness harmfully amplifies the quantity and severity of Old Testament problems encountered. Then, looking at several significant approaches to preaching the Old Testament, I argue that Whiteness contri…
Genesis 50: 15-21
Confronting Confederate Monuments: Place-Based Pedagogy for Anti-Racist Preaching
Space wins" is a long-held homiletical maxim. Usually, this means that architecture and pulpit style influence how sermons are delivered and heard. What is less frequently considered is how monuments and memorials affect proclamation in space. Among other things, Confederate monuments make claims on space, communicate idealized aesthetics, and preach about hopes for a particular eschatological community. This essay examines pedagogical approaches…
Sociology (11 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (9 works) · History (9 works) · Ethnology (8 works) · Cuban History and Society (7 works) · Demography (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · History (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (5 works)