Blacks in Colonial Veracruz: Race, Ethnicity, and Regional Development

Beginning with the Spanish conquest, Mexico has become a racially complex society intermixing Indian, Spanish, and African populations. Questions of race and ethnicity have fueled much political and scholarly debate, sometimes obscuring the experiences of particular groups, especially blacks. Blacks in Colonial Veracruz seeks to remedy this omission by studying the black experience in central Veracruz during virtually the entire colonial period.

The book probes the conditions that shaped the lives of inhabitants in Veracruz from the first European contact through the early formative period, colonial years, independence era, and the postindependence decade. While the primary focus is on blacks, Carroll relates their experience to that of Indians, Spaniards, and castas (racially hybrid people) to present a full picture of the interplay between local populations, the physical setting, and technological advances in the development of this important but little-studied region.

Author: Patrick J. Carroll
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 05/01/2001
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.14w x 0.59d
ISBN: 9780292712331

About the Author
Patrick J. Carroll is Joe B. Frantz Professor of History at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.