AHA Session 180
Conference on Latin American History 44
Conference on Latin American History 44
Saturday, January 8, 2022: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Grand Ballroom A (Sheraton New Orleans, 5th Floor)
Chair:
Natalia Sobrevilla Perea, School of European Languages and Cultures, University of Kent
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The Audience
Session Abstract
This panel explores the processes of racial discrimination and racialization of Black people in the Hispanic Atlantic and its relation to slavery and slaveholding. During more than 400 years, slavery and the slave trade were the most intense and lasting cohesive activities in the Hispanic Atlantic World for demographic, cultural, military, social and political reasons but its impact and legacies varies significantly from certain territories and colonial spaces to others. From the complex racial categorizations on Blackness in New Spain, and the gradual assimilation of Black as a synonym of enslaved in Cuba during the 19th century, to the proclaimed ‘absence’ of Black people in Argentina, this panel explores the ways in which people of color faced discrimination and violence and forged their identities in relation to the state, the nation, their communities or those who enslaved them.
This panel will appeal to historians of race, slavery, Latin America, the Atlantic World and the Iberian world.
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