Saturday, January 10, 2004

2:30–4:30 a.m.

110. Race, Empire, and the Military: Militias of Color in Colonial Central America, Brazil, and Cuba
Marriott, McKinley Room

Chair: Hendrik Kraay, University of Calgary
Papers:

Useful Enemies: Foreign Invaders and the Rise of Pardo Militias in Colonial Central America
Paul Lokken, Bryant College

“ For the Benefit of the Common Good”: Regiments of Cacadores do Mato in Minas Gerais, Brazil
Mariana Libanio de Rezende Dantas, Johns Hopkins University

Reform and Protest: The Reestablishment of the Militia of Color in Cuba
Michele Reid, University of Texas at Austin


Comment: Ben Vinson III, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill