Ethnic Outsiders and Their Place in Paradigmatic Histories of Conquest. A Review of Laura E. Matthew's <em>Memories of Conquest: Becoming Mexicano in Colonial Guatemala</em> (Chapel Hill: The U of North Carolina P, 2012)

Authors

  • Leonardo Hernández SUNY-Oswego

Keywords:

Guatemala, 'mexicano', ethnicity, conquest, memory, identity

Abstract

A review of Laura E. Matthew's Memories of Conquest: Becoming Mexicano in Colonial Guatemala (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2012).

Author Biography

Leonardo Hernández, SUNY-Oswego

Leonardo Hernandez is Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York, Oswego. He specializes in colonial Guatemala and on ethnic relations in colonial southeastern Mesoamerica (Chiapas, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras). His research interests include an ongoing project on colonial Afro-Guatemalan religiosity and religious literacy using XVIII Inquisition records. While of course wishing to highlight the contributions of colonial Afro-Guatemalans to Guatemalan culture, Dr. Hernandez’s interest in this topic is also rooted in exploring the colonial history of Guatemala which remains woefully understudied.

Published

2013-01-31

How to Cite

Hernández, L. (2013). Ethnic Outsiders and Their Place in Paradigmatic Histories of Conquest. A Review of Laura E. Matthew’s <em>Memories of Conquest: Becoming Mexicano in Colonial Guatemala</em> (Chapel Hill: The U of North Carolina P, 2012). A Contracorriente: Una Revista De Estudios Latinoamericanos, 10(2), 396–401. Retrieved from https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/678

Issue

Section

Reviews: Conquest and Ethnicity in Mexico and Guatemala