Los estudios sobre el aprendizaje de las diferentes lenguas que convivieron en Nueva Espana, y en las Indias en general, se han concentrado en el aprendizaje del castellano por parte de los indigen...

Aprendizaje de lenguas indígenas por parte de españoles en Nueva España en los primeros cien años después de la conquista

Thomas Gage wrote A New Survey of the West Indies or, The English American his Travel by Sea and Land (1648) with the aim to convince Oliver Cromwell that the English could successfully invade Spanish held American territories. The English attempt to invade the Spanish colonies in 1655 would not garner non-Whites' unwavering aid, which is a decisive factor in the Western Design's failure. Although subalterns in the region rebelled against Spanish hegemony, they were by no means in constant revolt as Gage suggested. They had also carved out an integral place within Spanish American society and culture. Mulattos are subaltern agents whose defining role in the Western Design's collapse has not been considered sufficiently. Though they were Afro-descendants, Mulattos were racially ambiguous tricksters who disturbed hierarchies. Mulattos sought autonomy by forming alliances with Europeans- be they Spanish, English, French or Dutch- as well as with Amerindian communities, to the extent that these relationships afforded them relative autonomy within hierarchical colonial power structures. Mulattos' oral and embodied discourses within Gage's text exemplify their agency and shifting alliances.

Foreshadowing Failure: Mulatto and Black Oral Discourse and the Upending of The Western Design in Thomas Gage's A New Survey (1648)

Mímesis y ejemplaridad en las rodillas de Hernán Cortés: Prolegómenos de la evangelización del Nuevo Mundo

The early Franciscan missionaries to Mexico left a record of energy, courage and devotion that still stirs the imagination.* We see them all in the silhouette of the first nameless friar who came to Jalisco, "a pie y descalzo y levantadas las faldas del hdbito, y con un rosario en la una mano y un borddn en la otra."I "A puro talWn" they climbed mountains wrapped in clouds, descended into frightful abysses, crossed swollen rivers on reed rafts floated with gourds and propelled by Indian swimmers.2 Their food was the

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'The Twelve' Meet a Language Requirement

The English American on the Spanish Galleons