SPAN 390

The Limits of Racial Formation: Constructing Black Identities in Colonial Spanish American Texts

Professor Mariselle Meléndez
e-mail: melendez@uiuc.edu
http://www.sip.uiuc.edu/people/melendez.htm

Syllabus

• SPAN390 Fall 2003 Black Identities -Syllabus (.pdf)

Images

• Cuadro de Castas

• Trujillo del Perú

• Early Images

Important links for the course

Resource Documents

• Diccionaro de autoridades de la Real Academia Española

• Leyes de Indias

• San Martín de Porres

• San Martín de Porres: Perfil histórico

• San PedroClaver, esclavo de los esclavos

Bibliographical Sources

• African Diaspora in Latin America

• Yale University Library Latin American Collection-Subject Bibliographies

Journals

• Colonial Latin American Historical Review

• Colonial Latin American Review

Rare Books Collections and Libraries

• Columbia University-Lehman Library-Map Collection

• The John Carter Brown Library

• The Huntington Library at San Marino, CA.

• The Library of Congress (Washington D.C.)

• The Newberry Library at Chicago, IL

• Rare Book & Special Collection Library at UIUC