At the Heart of the Borderlands: Africans and Afro-descendants on the Edges of Colonial Spanish America
Thursday, February 1, 2024, 3:30 to 5 p.m. in HIB 135 (in person)
Presentation of the book At the Heart of the Borderlands: Africans and Afro-descendants on the edges of Colonial Spanish America. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2023, by editor Cameron D. Jones (California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo), and contributors Anne Reid (CSU Dominguez Hill), Rachel O'Toole (UCI History), and Alex Borucki (UCI History)
Cameron D. Jones, “’Se Llaman Gente de Razón’: Afro-Descendants in Early Spanish California, 1769-1821”
Anne M. Reid, “The Case of María Faustina Trejo: Fluid Racial Categories in Jalisco’s Highlands, 1781-1815,”
Rachel O’Toole, “Fugitive Time, Space, and Refusal in the Pacific Andes,”
Alex Borucki, “Aqueous and Dry Borderlands: Africans and Their Descendants in Colonial Rio de la Plata,”
Join contributing authors to the edited volume, At the Heart of the Borderlands: Africans and Afro-Descendants on the Edges of Colonial Spanish America edited by Cameron D. Jones and Jay T. Harrison (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2023) for a discussion how people of African descent contributed to the formation of frontier spaces. Socially mobile and leaders of borderlands societies, Africans and their descendants also resisted Spanish imperial power.
Sponsored by the UCI Department of History and the UCI Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Image Credit: Curso de el río de Atrato. Plano de la Provincia del Zitará, included in the manuscript, “Descripción de la Provincia del Zitará y el curso del río Atrato,” ca. 1780. The Poetry Collection of the University of Libraries, University of Buffalo, The State University of New York.
For disability accommodations and other questions, please contact Rachel O'Toole at rotoole@uci.edu