Larissa Brewer-García. Beyond Babel: Translations of Blackness in Colonial Peru and New Granada

In the last decade, scholars of Colonial Latin America have increasingly turned their focus to role translators and intermediaries in production knowledge for about native populations. Less studied, however, has been Black interpreters mediators played contesting creating notions discourses blackness. Partly, this is a reflection archive itself. Unlike Indigenous languages that were studied described by Spanish missionaries which rich corpus grammars, vocabularies, sermon collections (among other genres) survive, no equivalent linguistic efforts carried out priests regard