Scandal in the Plaza Mayor: Race-making, Resistance, and the Persecution of a Black Female Property Owner in Colonial Oaxaca, by Sabrina Smith

Sabrina Smith is an Assistant Professor at UC Merced. She specializes in the history of the African Diaspora to Mexico and Central America. Sabrina Smith is currently working on her first book manuscript tentatively titled, Beyond Captivity and Freedom: African-Descended Women and Men in Colonial Oaxaca. Last semester, she was a fellow at the John Carter Brown Library and the Huntington Library. Smith received a B.A in Spanish Literature and Anthropology from UC Santa Barbara and she earned her MA and PhD in History from UCLA.

The series "From Atlantic Studies to the Black Pacific: New currents of Afro-Mexican History" is co-sponsored by the History Department and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and supported by the Humanities Center.