Gender, Race and Religion in the Colonization of the Americas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gender, Race and Religion in the Colonization of the Americas write by Nora E. Jaffary. This book was released on 2007. Gender, Race and Religion in the Colonization of the Americas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Gender, Race and Religion in the Colonization of the Americas
Gender, Race and Religion in the Colonization of the Americas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gender, Race and Religion in the Colonization of the Americas write by Nora E. Jaffary. This book was released on 2016-12-05. Gender, Race and Religion in the Colonization of the Americas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Europe introduced mechanisms to control New World territories, resources and populations, women-whether African, indigenous, mixed race, or European-responded and participated in multiple ways. By adopting a comprehensive view of female agency, the essays in this collection reveal the varied implications of women's experiences in colonialism in North and South America. Although the Spanish American context receives particular attention here, the volume contrasts the context of both colonial Mexico and Peru to every other major geographic region that became a focus of European imperialism in the early modern period: the Caribbean, Brazil, English America, and New France. The chapters provide a coherent perspective on the comparative history of European colonialism in the Americas through their united treatment of four central themes: the gendered implications of life on colonial frontiers; non-European women's relationships to Christian institutions; the implications of race-mixing; and social networks established by women of various ethnicities in the colonial context. This volume adds a new dimension to current scholarship in Atlantic history through its emphasis on culture, gender and race, and through its explicit effort to link religion to the broader imperial framework of economic extraction and political domination.
Spiritual Mestizaje
Spiritual Mestizaje - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spiritual Mestizaje write by Theresa Delgadillo. This book was released on 2011-08-08. Spiritual Mestizaje available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Demonstrates the centrality of Gloria Anzald&úas concept of spiritual mestizaje to the queer feminist Chicana theorists life and thought, and its utility as a framework for interpreting contemporary Chicana narratives.
Peace Came in the Form of a Woman
Peace Came in the Form of a Woman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Peace Came in the Form of a Woman write by Juliana Barr. This book was released on 2009-11-30. Peace Came in the Form of a Woman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Revising the standard narrative of European-Indian relations in America, Juliana Barr reconstructs a world in which Indians were the dominant power and Europeans were the ones forced to accommodate, resist, and persevere. She demonstrates that between the 1690s and 1780s, Indian peoples including Caddos, Apaches, Payayas, Karankawas, Wichitas, and Comanches formed relationships with Spaniards in Texas that refuted European claims of imperial control. Barr argues that Indians not only retained control over their territories but also imposed control over Spaniards. Instead of being defined in racial terms, as was often the case with European constructions of power, diplomatic relations between the Indians and Spaniards in the region were dictated by Indian expressions of power, grounded in gendered terms of kinship. By examining six realms of encounter--first contact, settlement and intermarriage, mission life, warfare, diplomacy, and captivity--Barr shows that native categories of gender provided the political structure of Indian-Spanish relations by defining people's identity, status, and obligations vis-a-vis others. Because native systems of kin-based social and political order predominated, argues Barr, Indian concepts of gender cut across European perceptions of racial difference.
Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians
Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians write by Sophie White. This book was released on 2013-01-14. Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Based on a sweeping range of archival, visual, and material evidence, Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians examines perceptions of Indians in French colonial Louisiana and demonstrates that material culture—especially dress—was central to the elaboration of discourses about race. At the heart of France's seventeenth-century plans for colonizing New France was a formal policy—Frenchification. Intended to turn Indians into Catholic subjects of the king, it also carried with it the belief that Indians could become French through religion, language, and culture. This fluid and mutable conception of identity carried a risk: while Indians had the potential to become French, the French could themselves be transformed into Indians. French officials had effectively admitted defeat of their policy by the time Louisiana became a province of New France in 1682. But it was here, in Upper Louisiana, that proponents of French-Indian intermarriage finally claimed some success with Frenchification. For supporters, proof of the policy's success lay in the appearance and material possessions of Indian wives and daughters of Frenchmen. Through a sophisticated interdisciplinary approach to the material sources, Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians offers a distinctive and original reading of the contours and chronology of racialization in early America. While focused on Louisiana, the methodological model offered in this innovative book shows that dress can take center stage in the investigation of colonial societies—for the process of colonization was built on encounters mediated by appearance.
