Book contents
- Beyond Babel
- Afro-Latin America
- Beyond Babel
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transcriptions and Translations
- Introduction
- 1 Black Types between Renaissance Humanism and Iberian Counter Reformation Theology
- 2 The Transatlantic Slave Trade and Spanish American Missionary Translation Policy
- 3 The Mediations of Black Interpreters in Colonial Cartagena de Indias
- 4 Conversion and the Making of Blackness in Colonial Cartagena de Indias
- 5 Salvation and the Making of Blackness in Colonial Lima
- Coda
- Appendixes
- Bibliography
- Index
1 - Black Types between Renaissance Humanism and Iberian Counter Reformation Theology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 July 2020
- Beyond Babel
- Afro-Latin America
- Beyond Babel
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transcriptions and Translations
- Introduction
- 1 Black Types between Renaissance Humanism and Iberian Counter Reformation Theology
- 2 The Transatlantic Slave Trade and Spanish American Missionary Translation Policy
- 3 The Mediations of Black Interpreters in Colonial Cartagena de Indias
- 4 Conversion and the Making of Blackness in Colonial Cartagena de Indias
- 5 Salvation and the Making of Blackness in Colonial Lima
- Coda
- Appendixes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Typological portrayals of black Christians or black proto-Christians in missionary texts from late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Spanish America acknowledge black men’s and women’s interiority and intellectual capacities, whatever their level of civility, as a means of justifying their ability to become Christians. The juxtaposition of three generic types of black subjects in this chapter demonstrates that even as racial hierarchies in the Iberian world were cohering and increasingly associating blackness with bodies direly in need of civilizing tutelage, theological discourse left open a loophole for conceiving of black intellectual capacities and spiritual virtue.
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- Beyond BabelTranslations of Blackness in Colonial Peru and New Granada, pp. 34 - 73Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020