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Category: Mexico

  • Chocolate and Corn Flour: History, Race, and Place in the Making of “Black” Mexico

    In “Chocolate and Corn Flour,” Laura A. Lewis explores the history and contemporary culture of San Nicolás, focusing on the ways in which local inhabitants experience and understand race, blackness, and indigeneity, as well as on the cultural values that outsiders place on the community and its residents.

  • Notions of race in modern-day Mexico addressed in lecture, exhibit

    Notions of race in modern-day Mexico addressed in lecture, exhibit The Daily Tar Heel 2013-04-03 Tat’yana Berdan The Daily Tar Heel is the student newspaper at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The complicated and nuanced issue of race in Mexico is often overlooked, but The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture…

  • The Elusive Variability of Race

    The question of race is, at its core, a questioning of humanity itself.  In various eras and locales, race has been marked by color of skin, texture of hair, dress, musical prowess, digital dexterity, rote memorization, mien, mannerisms, disease, athletic ability, capacity to write poetry, sense of rhythm, sobriety, childlike cheerfulness, animal anger, language, continent…

  • Hist7362: Histories of Exclusion: Race and Ethnicity in Latin America

    Hist7362: Histories of Exclusion: Race and Ethnicity in Latin America University College of London 2013 Paulo Drinot, Senior Lecturer in Latin American History This course examines race and ethnicity, and processes of racialised and ethnic exclusion, in Latin America in historical perspective. It invites us to consider the historical role played by race and ethnicity…

  • Land of the Cosmic Race: Race Mixture, Racism, and Blackness in Mexico

    “Land of the Cosmic Race” is a richly-detailed ethnographic account of the powerful role that race and color play in organizing the lives and thoughts of ordinary Mexicans. It presents a previously untold story of how individuals in contemporary urban Mexico construct their identities, attitudes, and practices in the context of a dominant national belief…

  • Methodologies of Socio-Cultural Classification: Contexutalizing the Casta Painting (1710-1800) as a Product of Time

    Methodologies of Socio-Cultural Classification: Contexutalizing the Casta Painting (1710-1800) as a Product of Time Undergraduate Journal of Gender and Women’s Studies Volume 1, Issue 1 (2012) 17 pages Pooja Chaudhuri University of California, Berkeley The “casta painting” appeared in the early 18th century Colonial Mexico (New Spain). The paintings illustrated different offspring produced from sexual…

  • Discovery of his roots leads him to track history of Chinese in Mexico

    Discovery of his roots leads him to track history of Chinese in Mexico UCLA Today Faculty and Staff News 2010-12-06 Letisia Marquez Growing up in a predominantly white Los Angeles County suburb, Robert Chao Romero, an assistant professor of Chicana and Chicano studies, learned to hide his Chinese background.   The son of a Chinese…

  • “Chino-Chicano”: A Biblical Framework for Diversity (Part I)

    “Chino-Chicano”: A Biblical Framework for Diversity (Part I) Jesus for Revolutionaries: A Blog About Race, Social Justice, and Christianity 2013-01-03 Robert Chao Romero, Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies and Asian American Studies University of California, Los Angeles I’m a “Chino-Chicano.” I was born in East Los Angeles and raised in the small town of Hacienda…

  • The Black Middle: Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial Yucatán

    The Black Middle: Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial Yucatán Stanford University Press 2009 456 pages 39 tables, 4 figures, 13 illustrations, 11 maps. Cloth ISBN: 9780804749831 Matthew Restall, Professor of Latin American History and Director of Latin American Studies Pennsylvania State University The Black Middle is the first full-length study of black African slaves and…

  • The Black Middle: Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial Yucatán (review)

    The Black Middle: Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial Yucatán (review) Enterprise & Society Volume 13, Number 4, December 2012 pages 932-934 Jeremy Baskes, Professor of History Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio Visitors to modern day Yucatán encounter a region rich in indigenous culture; guidebooks extol the grandeur of ancient Maya kingdoms whose ruins still…