Blackness

​This is a position paper about a subject position.

“Because of my mothers.

Brewer-García, Larissa.

Bennett, Herman.

Fromont, Cécile.

One of the doc­u­ments I have been pouring over the past seven years tells of a plot in 1612 by Mexico’s black pop­u­lation to kill all male Spaniards, rape the young, beau­tiful women, and enslave the native population.

My research agenda explores the agency, sub­jec­tivity, and per­for­mance of Black dias­poric iden­tities in early modern Iberia (Por­tugal, Spain, and Valencia) and the Ibero-Atlantic world.

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