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- Title
BUILDING CREOLE IDENTITY IN THE AFRICAN ATLANTIC: BOUNDARIES OF RACE AND RELIGION IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY CABO VERDE.
- Authors
GREEN, TOBIAS
- Abstract
The article explores the racial and religious identity of Creoles in the Cabo Verde (Cape Verde) archipelago in the 17th century in light of studies of Atlantic history and historiography. The author discusses the involvement of Cabo Verde in Atlantic trade systems in the 16th century, social conditions of the mixed-race Creoles, and the rise of Creole identity in the 17th century. Topics include the role of conflict, stereotypes, and elitism in the development of Creole identity on the archipelago, the influence New Christians the Jesuit religious order, and Portuguese religion on Creoles, and the actions of New Christian João Rodrigues Freire.
- Subjects
PORTUGAL; CABO Verde; AFRICA; CABO Verdean history, to 1975; CREOLES; MULTIRACIAL people; ARCHIPELAGOES; PORTUGUESE colonies; FREIRE, Joao Rodrigues; MARRANOS; SOCIAL history
- Publication
History in Africa: A Journal of Method, 2009, Vol 36, p103
- ISSN
0361-5413
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/hia.2010.0011