Iberia negra

<P><I>Iberia negra</I> provides textual and methodological resources to investigate and study the African Diaspora and early modern Iberian Studies with a transatlantic and global perspective. This unique and timely volume renovates the study of Black African lives in the Iberian Peninsula during the 16th and 17th centuries, contextualizing and illuminating Afro-Iberian experiences and representations through unpublished or little-known documents. </P><P> </P><P>Across twelve chapters,<I> </I><I>Iberia negra</I> explores the Afro-Iberian presence and the construction of Black identity in the Iberian Peninsula through the era¿s social practices and cultural representations. In dialogue with a vast critical production from different disciplines such as philology, history, anthropology, musicology, cultural studies, and Black and race studies, this volume offers a more complex vision of Black Iberia, moving away from stereotypes and giving an account of the life e