Drama Under the Skin: Baroque Catholic Ritual in Northern New Spain

Utilizing local analysis to make global conclusions, Drama Under the Skin uses ritual as a lens to examine race and identity formation of both free and enslaved people of African descent and Indigenous groups in northern New Spain. Juana Moriel-Payne proposes that Baroque-Catholic ideology, as social culture, incited and promoted the participation of those peoples in religious rituals.

Through their involvement in fiestas, cofradías, and capellanías, those groups were able to create and/or ...