Miguel Valerio — a reading list

On Blackness, Festive Kings and Queens, and State Terror

Issue 07 — Fall 2020 — Session 02 — Contemporary Pasts
By Miguel A. Valerio | Published on October 15, 2020

This list gathers some readings that give a certain definition blackness (Perry), give the genealogy of festive black kings and queens (Fromont), and parse the 1612 report (Martínez and Nemser).

Keywords

Fromont, Cécile. “Dancing for the King of Congo from Early Modern Central Africa to Slavery-Era Brazil.” Colonial Latin American Review 22, no. 2 (2013): 184–208.

Martínez, María Elena. “The Black Blood of New Spain: Limpieza De Sangre, Racial Violence, and Gendered Power in Early Colonial Mexico.” The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, 61, no. 3 (2004): 479–520.

Nemser, Daniel. “Triangulating Blackness: Mexico City, 1612.” Mexican Studies 33, no. 3 (2017): 344–366. https://doi.org/10.1525/msem.2017.33.3.344

Perry, Imani. “Racism Is Terrible. Blackness Is Not.” The Atlantic (June 15, 2020):https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/racism-terrible-blackness-not/613039/

Miguel Valerio — a reading list

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