Blacks and Blackness in Central America: Between Race and Place

CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction

PART I. Colonial Worlds of Slavery and Freedom
- Angolans in Amatitlán: Sugar, African Immigrants, and Gente Ladina in Colonial Guatemala
- Cacao and Slavery in Matina, Costa Rica, 1650-1750
- Race and Place in Colonial Mosquitia, 1600-1787
- Slavery and Social Differentiation: Slave Wages in Omoa
- Becoming Free, Becoming Ladino: Slave Emancipation and Mestizaje in Colonial Guatemala

PART II. Nation Building and Reinscribing Race
- "The Cruel Whip": Race and Place in Nineteenth-Century Nicaragua
- What Difference did Color Make? Blacks in the "White Towns" of Western Nicaragua in the 1880s
- Race and the Space of Citizenship: The Mosquito Coast and the Place of Blackness and Indigeneity in Nicaragua
- Eventually Alien: The Multigenerational Saga of British Western Indians in Central America, 1870-1940
- White Zones: American Enclave Communities of Central America
- The Slow Ascent of the Marginalized: Afro-Descendents in Costa Rica and Nicaragua

Bibliography
Contributors
Index