Sovereign Joy
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Sovereign Joy

Afro-Mexican Kings and Queens, 1539-1640

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Sovereign Joy

Afro-Mexican Kings and Queens, 1539-1640

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Sovereign Joy explores the performance of festive black kings and queens among Afro-Mexicans between 1539 and 1640. This fascinating study illustrates how the first African and Afro-creole people in colonial Mexico transformed their ancestral culture into a shared identity among Afro-Mexicans, with particular focus on how public festival participation expressed their culture and subjectivities, as well as redefined their colonial condition and social standing. By analyzing this hitherto understudied aspect of Afro-Mexican Catholic confraternities in both literary texts and visual culture, Miguel A. Valerio teases out the deeply ambivalent and contradictory meanings behind these public processions and festivities that often re-inscribed structures of race and hierarchy. Were they markers of Catholic subjecthood, and what sort of corporate structures did they create to project standing and respectability? Sovereign Joy examines many of these possibilities, and in the process highlights the central place occupied by Africans and their descendants in colonial culture. Through performance, Afro-Mexicans affirmed their being: the sovereignty of joy, and the joy of sovereignty.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2022
ISBN
9781009086134
Topic
History
Subtopic
Latin American & Caribbean History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Series page
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright page
  6. Dedication
  7. Epigraph
  8. Contents
  9. List of Figures
  10. List of Tables
  11. Preface
  12. Acknowledgments
  13. List of Abbreviations
  14. Introduction: Thinking Black Joy, Sovereignty, and Being from Colonial Latin America
  15. 1 “With Their King and Queen”: Early Colonial Mexico, the Origins of Festive Black Kings and Queens, and the Birth of the Black Atlantic
  16. 2 “Rebel Black Kings (and Queens)”?: Race, Colonial Psychosis, and Afro-Mexican Kings and Queens
  17. 3 “Savage Kings” and Baroque Festival Culture: Afro-Mexicans in the Celebration of the Beatification of Ignatius of Loyola
  18. 4 “Black and Beautiful”: Afro-Mexican Women Performing Creole Identity
  19. Conclusion: Where Did the Black Court Go?
  20. Appendix
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index