Herman Bennett (scholar) explained

Herman L. Bennett (born 1964) is an American scholar who specializes in American and Africana studies particularly the African diaspora and Latin America.^[1] He is the author of three academic monographs.

Biography

Bennett received his Ph.D. from Duke University. Bennett has taught at UNC-Chapel Hill, Johns Hopkins, Rutgers, and the Free University of Berlin. he is a professor at CUNY Graduate Center, and directs the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean.^[2]

He became senior editor of The Americas in 2021, and joined the board of the Hispanic American Historical Review that same year.^[3]

His African Kings and Black Slaves (2019) uses historical archives of Europe and Africa in order to understand interactions between Europeans and Africans during the first one hundred years of interaction, to reinterpret how European ideas about Africa were shaped by their own cultural and social backgrounds, and how African leaders demanded European participation in African rituals and diplomacy. European preconceptions determined who was to be considered a sovereign people, judgments that were the basis for decisions on who could be enslaved and who couldn't.^[4]

Bibliography

• Africans in Colonial Mexico: Absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole Consciousness, 1570-1640 (Indiana UP, 2003)^{[5] [6] [7] [8] [9]}
• Colonial Blackness: A History of Afro-Mexico (Indiana UP, 2009)^[10]
• African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic (U of Pennsylvania P, 2019)^[4]

Notes and References

1. News: . As Historians Gather, No Truce in the History Wars . Jennifer . Schuessler . January 8, 2023 . February 1, 2023.
2. Web site: Herman Bennett. February 1, 2023 . .
3. Web site: Herman Bennett . CUNY . February 1, 2023 .
4. Portuguese American Journal . Book: African Kings and Black Slaves by Herman L. Bennett – Editor’s Note . March 24, 2020 . February 1, 2023.
5. Vinson, III . Ben . Reviews of Books [Review of ''Africans in Colonial Mexico: Absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole Consciousness, 1570-1640'', Herman L. Bennett] ]. . 109 . 4 . 1275–1276 .
6. Schwaller . J. F. . 2005 . [Review of ''Africans in Colonial Mexico: Absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole Consciousness, 1570-1640'', by H. L. Bennett] ]. . 61 . 4 . 708–710 .
7. Irene A. . Vasquez . 2010 . The Longue Durée of Africans in Mexico: The Historiography of Racialization, Acculcutration, and Afro-Mexican Subjectivity . . 95 . 2 . 183–201 .
8. von Germeten . N. . 2010 . [Review of ''Colonial Blackness: A History of Afro-Mexico,'' by H. L. Bennett] ]. . 115 . 4 . 1194–1195 .
9. Frey . S. R. . 2004 . [Review of ''Africans in Colonial Mexico: Absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole Consciousness, 1570-1640'', by H. L. Bennett] ]. . 61 . 2 . 349–352 .
10. Zuniga . J.-P. . 2012 . [Review of ''Colonial Blackness: A History of Afro-Mexico'', by H. L. Bennett] ]. . 67 . 2 . 505–507 .