Category: Mexico

  • Mexico’s hidden people Cable News Network (CNN) 2015-07-10 Abby Reimer, Special to CNN Photograph: Mara Sanchez Renero (CNN)—An estimated 200,000 Africans were brought to Mexico under slavery, which ended in the country in 1829. Yet Afro-Mexicans remain a marginalized and often forgotten part of Mexico’s identity. Photographer Mara Sanchez Renero first learned about Afro-Mexicans as…

  • Black Mexicans face considerable hurdles Compton Herald 2015-06-05 Alexis Okeowo Mexicanos negros (black Mexicans) face considerable hurdles; Afro-Mexicans are marginalized and excluded to the point that it is impossible to find any mention of them in official records The first town of freed African slaves in the Americas is not exactly where you would expect…

  • From Chains to Chiles: An Elite Afro-Indigenous Couple in Colonial Mexico, 1641–1688 Ethnohistory Volume 62, Number 2, April 2015 pages 361-384 DOI: 10.1215/00141801-2854356 Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva, Assistant Professor of History University of Rochester This article explores the life of an elite Afro-indigenous couple in the city of Puebla de los Ángeles during the seventeenth…

  • Black Blood Brothers: Confraternities and Social Mobility for Afro-Mexicans University Press of Florida 2006-05-30 304 pages 6 x 9 Hardback ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-2942-9 Nicole von Germeten, Associate Professor of History Oregon State University Celebrating the African contribution to Mexican culture, this book shows how religious brotherhoods in New Spain both preserved a distinctive African identity…

  • We are Afro-Mexican|”I am Blaxican” Life as Karen: Just setting my soul free. 2015-03-12 Karen Salinas This week I decided to interview my dad; my inspiration for this project. The interview was conducted in Spanish, the English version is translated! Esta semana decidi entrevistar a mi papa; la inspiracion para este proyecto. K: ¿De donde…

  • Land of the Cosmic Race Sociological Forum Volume 30, Issue 1 (March 2015) pages 248-251 DOI: 10.1111/socf.12157 Martha King Graduate Center City University of New York Land of the Cosmic Race: Race Mixture, Racism, and Blackness in Mexico. Christina A. Sue. New York: University of Oxford Press, 2013. In Land of the Cosmic Race: Race…

  • A Student Traveling Through Costa Chica Picked Up A Camera to Let Afro-Mexicans Tell Their Story Remezcla 2015-02-25 Andrew S. Vargas It’s Black History Month once again, and while it seems like every other day of the calendar year has been dedicated to some cause or another, the concept of Black history is particularly relevant…

  • Mestizaje and Public Opinion in Latin America Latin American Research Review Volume 48, Number 3 (2013) pages 130-152 DOI: 10.1353/lar.2013.0045 Edward Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University Denia Garcia Department of Sociology Princeton University Latin American elites authored and disseminated ideologies of mestizaje or race mixture, but does the general population value them today? Using the…

  • Pigmentocracies: Educational Inequality, Skin Color and Census Ethnoracial Identification in Eight Latin American Countries Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Available online: 2015-02-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2015.02.002 Edward Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University René Flores University of Washington Fernando Urrea Giraldo, Professor of Sociology Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia Highlights We use two measures of race…

  • Racial Passing in the U.S. and Mexico in the Early Twentieth Century RSF Review: Research from the Russell Sage Foundation Russell Sage Foundation New York, New York 2015-01-22 This feature is part of an ongoing RSF blog series, Work in Progress, which highlights some of the ongoing research of our current class of Visiting Scholars.…