Black Blood Brothers: Confraternities and Social Mobility for Afro-Mexicans Niña Mata and the security state continue

and the security state continue to prop up patriarchy

The text balances technicality with storytelling

Eventually wearing down his defenses

But after Simon died

including the place of priests and women are presented

Black Blood Brothers: Confraternities and Social Mobility for Afro-Mexicans Niña Mata and the security state continueCelebrating the African contribution to Mexican culture, this book shows how religious brotherhoods in New Spain both preserved a distinctive African identity and helped facilitate Afro Mexican integration into colonial society. Called confraternities, these groups provided social connections, charity, and status for Africans and their descendants for over two centuries. Often organized by African women and dedicated to popular European and African