Black Skin, White Soul:
The Ambivalence of Blackness in the Vida prodigiosa of Fray Martín de Porras (1663)
Keywords:
Colonial hagiography, Blackness in colonial Latin America, Saint Martin of PorrasAbstract
The intersection of discourse on Christian universality and discourse on the specific corporality, morality, and spirituality of blacks produced different kinds of subjects of African descent in colonial Spanish American texts. The hagiography of Fray Martín de Porras, written in Lima in 1663 by Dominican Bernardo de Medina, represents Porras’s blackness ambivalently: it negotiates the negative symbolic values attributed to the population of African descent in colonial Lima while celebrating Porras as an autochthonous exemplary figure for the viceroyalty of Peru and the Dominican order in general. In this negotiation, Medina represents Porras through an eclectic assortment of characteristics "”some associated with the humble classes of Lima’s colonial society and others with the elite"”. This article shows that in Medina’s text Porras is an ambivalent, not hybrid figure: Porras’s soul is white and associated with the "white" Spanish/criollo elite class, while his body is dark and associated with the "darker" lower classes. In the text, the ambivalent description of Porras does not threaten the colonial power, but rather supports its hierarchies. By analyzing the dynamics of power at play in the construction of Porras’s ambivalent subject, we can reflect on the notions of blackness, hybridity, and ambivalence, and their relation to the growing interest in Afro-colonial topics in the field of colonial Latin American studies.
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Navarrete, María Cristiana. Génesis y desarrollo de la esclavitud en Colombia: sigos XVY y XVII. Cali, Colombia: U del Valle, 2005.
Olsen, Margaret. Slavery and Salvation in Colonial Cartagena de Indias. Gainesville, FL: UP of Florida, 2004.
Osorio, Betty. "Brujería y chamanismo: duelo de símbolos en el Tribunal de la Inquisición de Cartagena de Indias". En: Lucía Ortiz (ed.). "Chambacú, la historia la escribes tú": Ensayos sobre cultura afrocolombiana. Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2007.
O’Toole, Rachel Sarah. Inventing Difference: Africans, Indians and the Antecedents of ‘Race’ in Colonial Peru (1580s-1720s). Tesis doctoral, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2001.
O’Toole, Rachel Sarah. "The Most Resplendent Flower of the Indies’: Making Saints and Constructing Whiteness in Colonial Peru". In: Daniella Kostroun and Lisa Vollendorf (eds.). Women, Religion, and the Atlantic World, 1600-1800. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2009.
Pallas, Gerónymo. Missión a las Indias: de Roma a Lima: "misión a las Indias", 1619 (razón y visión de una peregrinación sin retorno). José Jesús Hernández Palomo (ed.). Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos, 2006.
Quijano, Aníbal. "Colonialidad del poder, cultura y conocimiento en América Latina". Walter Mignolo (ed.). En: Capitalismo y geopolítica del conocimiento: el eurocentrismo y la filosofía de la liberación en el debate intellectual contemporáneo. Buenos Aires, Signo, 2001.
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Rappaport, Joan. "’Así lo paresce por su aspecto’: Physiognomy and the Construction of Difference in Colonial Bogota", Hispanic American Historical Review, v. 9, n. 4, 2011: 601-631.
Restrepo, Eduardo. Eventalizing Blackness in Colombia. Tesis doctoral, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2008.
Restrepo, Eduardo. "El negro en un pensamiento colonial de principios del siglo XVII: diferencia, jerarquía y sujeción sin racialización". María Eugenia Chaves (ed.). Genealogías de la diferencia: tecnologías de la salvación y representación de los africanos esclavizados en Iberoamérica colonial. Bogotá: Editorial Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, 2009: 118-77.
Root, Deborah. "Speaking Christian: Orthodoxy and Difference in Sixteenth-Century Spain", Representations, n. 23, 1988: 118-134.
Seth, Vanita. Europe’s Indians: Producing Racial Difference, 1500-1900. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2010.
Schwartz, Start B. "Spaniards, Pardos, and the Missing Mestizos: Identities and Racial Categories in the Early Hispanic Caribbean", New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, v. 71, n. 1-2, 1997: 5-19.
Solórzano y Pereira, Juan de. Política Indiana. Madrid: Diego de la Carrera, 1648.
Sweet, James. "The Iberian Roots of American Racist Thought". William and Mary Quarterly, v. 54, n. 1, 1997: 143-166.
Sweet, James. Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2003.
Tardieu, Jean-Pierre. Los negros y la Iglesia en el Perú: siglos XVI-XVII. Quito: Centro Cultural Afroecuatoriano, 1997.
Tiffany, Tanya J. "Light, Darkness, and African Salvation", Art History, v. 31, n. 1, 2008: 33-56.
Twinam, Ann. "Purchasing Whiteness: Conversations on the Essence of Pardo-ness and Mulatto-ness at the End of the Empire". In: Andrew B. Fisher and Matthew D. O’Hara (eds.). Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2009: 141-166.
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Vinson, Ben. "Introduction: African (Black) Diaspora History, Latin American History", The Americas, v. 63, n. 1, 2006: 1-18.
Vinson, Ben. "Race and Badge: The Free-Colored Militia in Colonial Mexico", The Americas, v. 56, n. 4, 2000: 471-496.
Von Germeten, Nicole. Corporate salvation in a Colonial Society: Confraternities and Social Mobility for Africans and their Descendants in New Spain. Tesis doctoral, University of California at Berkeley, 2003.
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01-12-2012
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Brewer-García, L. (2012). Black Skin, White Soul:: The Ambivalence of Blackness in the Vida prodigiosa of Fray Martín de Porras (1663). Cuadernos Del CILHA, 13(2), 113–146. Retrieved from https://revistas.uncu.edu.ar/ojs/index.php/cilha/article/view/4106
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