Document Type
Contribution to Book
Journal/Book Title/Conference
Civic Continuities in an Age of Revolutionary Change, c.1750–1850
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan Cham
Publication Date
12-5-2022
First Page
171
Last Page
196
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Abstract
This essay focuses on how Indigenous peoples in Colombia and Mexico sought to create a distinct politics, in which they could protect their colonial identities and local customs, within the new independent and republican nation-states of the Americas. Indigenous communities succeed in combining universal republican citizenship and particular colonial identities, maintaining more of a connection with the past, but nevertheless creating innovative solutions to adapt to the republican present. In contrast, popular African-Colombian actors eagerly embraced the possibilities of citizenship in new republican nation states, seeking to abandon a colonial identity associated with slavery. Both Afro-Colombians and Indígenas adapted traditional political practices, such as petitioning, in intellectually creative ways, to advance their interests and political visions after the Age of Revolution.
Recommended Citation
Sanders, J.E. (2023). Indigenous Citizens and Black Republicans: Continuities and Evolutions of Subalterns’ Political Visions and Repertoires in Post-independence Colombia and Mexico. In: Pollmann, J., te Velde, H. (eds) Civic Continuities in an Age of Revolutionary Change, c.1750–1850. Palgrave Studies in Political History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09504-7_8
