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4 - “Black and Beautiful”

Afro-Mexican Women Performing Creole Identity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2022

Miguel A. Valerio
Miguel A. Valerio
Affiliation:
Washington University, St Louis
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This chapter analyzes the performance ten "creole Black women" staged for the arrival of viceroy Diego López Pacheco in 1640. The performance is described in the only colonial text dedicated in its entirety to Black festive performance. The chapter thus studies the only surviving text for the kinds of performances Afro-Mexican staged for the arrival of new viceroys. In their performance the women reenacted the biblical story of the Queen of Sheba's visit to Solomon. By embodying the biblical Black queen, the women inscribed this performance within the Afro-Mexican tradition of festive Black kings and queens. This chapter is the first analysis to study this text from a Black perspective.

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Afro-Mexicoconfraternitiesfestive Black kings and queens
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Sovereign Joy
Afro-Mexican Kings and Queens, 1539-1640
 , pp. 168 - 213
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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