Articles and Book Chapters by Tatiana Seijas
Journal of Social History, 2024
Special Section: "On Agency" at Twenty
Antona, originally from Upper Guinea, raised a family in ... more Special Section: "On Agency" at Twenty
Antona, originally from Upper Guinea, raised a family in Mexico’s Black Pacific. Her story, memorialized in a freedom suit from 1597, suggests that framing survival as agency helps us reconstruct the experiences of people in a way that accounts for the complexity of power in their historical contexts.
COLONIAL LATIN AMERICAN REVIEW, 2021
Introduction to special issue.
Philippine Confluence Iberian, Chinese and Islamic Currents, c. 1500–1800, 2020
Seijas, Tatiana. "Slaving and the Global Reach of the Moro Wars in the Seventeenth Century." Chap... more Seijas, Tatiana. "Slaving and the Global Reach of the Moro Wars in the Seventeenth Century." Chap. 10 In Philippine Confluence: Iberian, Chinese and Islamic Currents, c. 1500-1800, edited by Jos Gommans and Ariel Lopez. Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2020.
The Oxford Handbook of Borderlands of the Iberian World, 2019
The chapter focuses on the royal road of the interior that linked Central Mexico and the Rio Gran... more The chapter focuses on the royal road of the interior that linked Central Mexico and the Rio Grande Valley to highlight the indigenous origins of its pathways and to showcase the economic and political agency exerted by native peoples. Native communities located on the royal road and its vicinity had unique access to commercial opportunities. Indigenous artisans traveled to and along the road to find a market for their products. Farmers simi larly relied on a steady stream of travelers seeking food and shelter to buy their surplus corn and other products to make some gains. Indian guides found paying customers who required their services to find their way from one stop along the road to the next settle ment. The historiography on royal roads in New Spain has primarily focused on their con nection to the Spanish colonial economy. This chapter aims to shift the narrative by illustrating how a number of indigenous communities used the routes for their own purposes.
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OXFORD RESEARCH ENCYCLOPEDIA, LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY, 2018
Mexico had an exceptionally diverse population during the 16th and 17th centuries, including Indi... more Mexico had an exceptionally diverse population during the 16th and 17th centuries, including Indigenous peoples of different ethnicities (in the majority), Iberians, and forced migrants from Africa and Asia, who related to one another in complex ways. Society—a group of people living in a community—was configured differently in each place, based on geographical location, local customs, property distribution, and a myriad of other factors. Faced with such different contexts, historians have tended to generalize about social organization (the way people interacted) from the perspective of the men who produced the most sources. Colonial statutes and official correspondence convey the attempts of Hapsburg officials to maintain a hierarchical social order, but property records reveal a more fluid reality. The acquisition of wealth and achievement of social status by non-Spaniards frustrated colonial ideals for a stratified society that correlated to ethnicity. The success of imperial governance, to the degree it was achieved, depended on its flexibility and how it allowed people to benefit from the colonial economy and to achieve social mobility.
Afro-Latin American Studies: An Introduction, 2018
Public History.
Seijas, Tatiana, and Seonaid Valiant. 2017. "A 'Regretful Goodbye to Mexico'." Th... more Public History.
Seijas, Tatiana, and Seonaid Valiant. 2017. "A 'Regretful Goodbye to Mexico'." The Newberry Magazine, Fall/Winter, 11-6.
Seijas, Tatiana, and Roquinaldo Ferreira. "Introduction to Special Issue." Journal of Global Slav... more Seijas, Tatiana, and Roquinaldo Ferreira. "Introduction to Special Issue." Journal of Global Slavery 2, no. 3 The Iberian Slave Trade: A Global Perspective (2017): 217-20.
Chapter in "To Be Indio in Colonial Spanish America," edited by Mónica Díaz, University of New Me... more Chapter in "To Be Indio in Colonial Spanish America," edited by Mónica Díaz, University of New MexicoPress, 2017
This historiographical essay discusses Asian migrations to Latin America from a Pacific World per... more This historiographical essay discusses Asian migrations to Latin America from a Pacific World perspective and employs a longue‐ durée periodization. The Pacific World paradigm offers a path for studying the movement of people and ideas as multi‐directional flows that impacted communities around the Pacific basin. The pre‐1900 century timeframe similarly urges scholars to move beyond nation‐bound narratives and to consider instead the long‐ standing cultural and ethnic ties that connected Asia and the Americas before the reification on national borders.
This study, based on an extensive notarial database, demonstrates the significance of slavery in ... more This study, based on an extensive notarial database, demonstrates the significance of slavery in Central Mexico during the seventeenth century. Thousands of bills of sale from Mexico City and Puebla – the largest and most lucrative slave markets in the region – show that the slave trade did not collapse with the end of the Portuguese asiento in 1640. A growing population of American-born creoles sustained the market during the subsequent decades, along with a modest number of new African arrivals. In 1700, slavery remained integral to Central Mexico’s economy.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10609164.2016.1180787
Books by Tatiana Seijas
As If She Were Free: A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas, 2020
During the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, countless slaves from culturally diverse com... more During the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, countless slaves from culturally diverse communities in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia journeyed to Mexico on the ships of the Manila Galleon. Upon arrival in Mexico, they were grouped together and categorized as chinos. Their experience illustrates the interconnectedness of Spain's colonies and the reach of the crown, which brought people together from Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe in a historically unprecedented way. In time, chinos in Mexico came to be treated under the law as Indians, becoming indigenous vassals of the Spanish crown after 1672. The implications of this legal change were enormous: as Indians, rather than chinos, they could no longer be held as slaves. Tatiana Seijas tracks chinos’ complex journey from the slave market in Manila to the streets of Mexico City, and from bondage to liberty. In doing so, she challenges commonly held assumptions about the uniformity of the slave experience in the Americas.
Spanish Dollars and Sister Republics traces the linked history of the new nations of Mexico and t... more Spanish Dollars and Sister Republics traces the linked history of the new nations of Mexico and the United States from the 1770s to the 1860s. The story begins when both countries chose the Spanish piece of eight (silver coin) as their monetary standard. The authors examine how each nation instituted its own currency, designed coins to represent its national ideals, and then spent decades trying to establish the legitimacy of its money.
Textbook written to meet the growing classroom need for comparative studies and global perspectives; ideal for introductory courses on the history of Mexico and the United States and for upper-division courses on Latino History, the American Southwest, and the Early Republic.
The new edition of Victors and Vanquished highlights recent advances in the field of Mesoamerican... more The new edition of Victors and Vanquished highlights recent advances in the field of Mesoamerican ethnohistory that allow for a more thorough and nuanced understanding of the fall of the Mexica empire. A revised introduction is followed by eight chronological sections that illuminate the major events and personalities in this powerful historical episode and reveal the changing attitudes toward European expansionism. Within each section, the authors have added a number of new text and visual sources designed to enrich and reframe the story of the conflict. Readers of the revised edition will also find updated section introductions and headnotes, and study questions for students. A list of the principal individuals mentioned in the texts, a glossary of Indigenous language terms, and a new bibliography as a guide to further research are also included.
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Articles and Book Chapters by Tatiana Seijas
Antona, originally from Upper Guinea, raised a family in Mexico’s Black Pacific. Her story, memorialized in a freedom suit from 1597, suggests that framing survival as agency helps us reconstruct the experiences of people in a way that accounts for the complexity of power in their historical contexts.
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Seijas, Tatiana, and Seonaid Valiant. 2017. "A 'Regretful Goodbye to Mexico'." The Newberry Magazine, Fall/Winter, 11-6.
Books by Tatiana Seijas
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Textbook written to meet the growing classroom need for comparative studies and global perspectives; ideal for introductory courses on the history of Mexico and the United States and for upper-division courses on Latino History, the American Southwest, and the Early Republic.
Antona, originally from Upper Guinea, raised a family in Mexico’s Black Pacific. Her story, memorialized in a freedom suit from 1597, suggests that framing survival as agency helps us reconstruct the experiences of people in a way that accounts for the complexity of power in their historical contexts.
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/afrolatin-american-studies/slave-trade-to-latin-america/40755A4925837EBC7AB7B2D84F1AEC3E
Seijas, Tatiana, and Seonaid Valiant. 2017. "A 'Regretful Goodbye to Mexico'." The Newberry Magazine, Fall/Winter, 11-6.
https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/african-american-histor/if-she-were-free-collective-biography-women-and-emancipation-americas?format=PB
Textbook written to meet the growing classroom need for comparative studies and global perspectives; ideal for introductory courses on the history of Mexico and the United States and for upper-division courses on Latino History, the American Southwest, and the Early Republic.