Delgadillo thoughtfully considers the production of “overlapping silences” that occur when historians choose to address certain historical narratives and neglect others. How does this scholarship combat these silences, and how have these silences contributed to the invisibility of Afro-Mexican identity and beyond?
How does Delgadillo prove Guadalajara as part of the “Black Urban Atlantic” and the Atlantic World and what do such concepts contribute to our understanding of Afro-Mexicans?
Delgadillo cautions readers to not place 21st century and/or North American (or English language) concepts of “race” when researching Afro-Mexicans/Latinx. Why is this crucial to approach this topic?
I would like to discuss and ask Jorge Delgadillo the limits and possibilities to use the term ‘calidad’ in other space (Mexico City or other Latin America countries)
What information suggest the analysis of Mexican press from the 1840s to the 1860s about Afro-Mexicans?
Afro-descendants manipulated the use of calidad labels for their own benefits in hope to have social mobility and obtain better status, so rejecting colonial labels was a political statement to incite changes in the way citizenship was to be established. Considering how priests and Afro descendants oscillated when using calidad labels in birth/marriage/sacramental records, it is unclear to me in what grounds mistakes were intentionally or not recorded by urban authorities/imperial officers, can we further discuss the situational aspect of this complexity/plasticity involving calidad as a tool of governance?
Delgadillo thoughtfully considers the production of “overlapping silences” that occur when historians choose to address certain historical narratives and neglect others. How does this scholarship combat these silences, and how have these silences contributed to the invisibility of Afro-Mexican identity and beyond?
How does Delgadillo prove Guadalajara as part of the “Black Urban Atlantic” and the Atlantic World and what do such concepts contribute to our understanding of Afro-Mexicans?
Delgadillo cautions readers to not place 21st century and/or North American (or English language) concepts of “race” when researching Afro-Mexicans/Latinx. Why is this crucial to approach this topic?
I would like to discuss and ask Jorge Delgadillo the limits and possibilities to use the term ‘calidad’ in other space (Mexico City or other Latin America countries)
What information suggest the analysis of Mexican press from the 1840s to the 1860s about Afro-Mexicans?
Afro-descendants manipulated the use of calidad labels for their own benefits in hope to have social mobility and obtain better status, so rejecting colonial labels was a political statement to incite changes in the way citizenship was to be established. Considering how priests and Afro descendants oscillated when using calidad labels in birth/marriage/sacramental records, it is unclear to me in what grounds mistakes were intentionally or not recorded by urban authorities/imperial officers, can we further discuss the situational aspect of this complexity/plasticity involving calidad as a tool of governance?
How does “Becoming Citizens” challenge the national narrative of Mexico and local narrative of Guadalajara?
What fields does Delgadillo’s scholarship contribute to?