Category: Mexico

  • Culture: The face in the mirror is mestizo San Antonio Current San Antonia, Texas 2006-02-22 Elaine Wolff, Current Editor Plaza de Armas A two-day roundtable takes a big eraser to identity lines “I’m looking for the mestizo eye, the mestizo subjunctive, the mestizo soul,” says author John Phillip Santos as we wander through Retratos: 2,000…

  • Colloquium – Mónica Moreno Figueroa on “Naming Ourselves: Recognising Racism and Mestizaje in Mexico” Auditorium of King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center New York University 53 Washington Square South New York, New York Monday, 2011-09-12, 18:00-20:00 EDT (Local Time) Mónica Moreno Figueroa, Lecturer in Sociology Newcastle University Discussant: Frances Negrón-Muntaner Hosted by the Center…

  • Q&A with Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. About Black Experience in Latin America Black in Latin America Public Broadcasting Service April 2011 Gates discusses his new project in this interview from the PBS site. First, could you talk a little bit about this project? I conceived of this as a trilogy of documentary series that…

  • Racial Ideologies, Racial-Group Boundaries, and Racial Identity in Veracruz, Mexico Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 5, Number 3 (November 2010) pages 273-299 DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2010.513829 Recent scholarly interest in the populations of African descent in Latin America has contributed to a growing body of literature. Although a number of studies have explored the issue of blackness…

  • Racial mixture and civil war: The histories of the U.S. South and Mexico in the novels of William Faulkner and Carlos Fuentes Michigan State University 2008 266 pages Publication Number: AAT 3331903 ISBN: 9780549837800 Emron Lee Esplin, Assistant Professor of English and American Studies Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia A Dissertation Submitted to Michigan State…

  • The Afro-Mexican presence in Guadalajara at the dawn of independence Purdue University December 2010 85 pages Publication Number: AAT 1490649 ISBN: 9781124557854 Beau D. J. Gaitors A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Purdue University by Beau D. J. Gaitors In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts Scholars often…

  • Without Impediment: Crossing Racial Boundaries in Colonial Mexico The Americas Volume 67, Number 4 (April 2011) E-ISSN: 1533-6247; Print ISSN: 0003-1615 Jake Federick, Assistant Professor of History Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin On April 18, 1773, in the town of Teziutlán in the eastern mountains of Mexico, Captain don Raphael Padres participated in the baptism of…

  • Blacks in Mexico: A Forgotten Minority Time Magazine 2009-09-15 Alexis Okeowo The first town of freed African slaves in the Americas is not exactly where you would expect to find it—and it isn’t exactly what you’d expect to find either. First, it’s not in the United States. Yanga, on Mexico’s Gulf Coast, is a sleepy…

  • “Mulata, Hija de Negro y India”: Afro-Indigenous Mulatos in Early Colonial Mexico Journal of Social History Volume 44, Number 3 (Spring 2011) pages 889-914 E-ISSN: 1527-1897; Print ISSN: 0022-4529 DOI: 10.1353/jsh.2011.0007 Robert C. Schwaller, Lecturer of History University of North Carolinia, Charlotte Since the fifteenth century, the term “mulato” has been used to describe individuals…

  • Black Mexico: Nineteenth-Century Discourses of Race and Nation Brown University May 2009 268 pages Marisela Jiménez Ramos A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of History at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. On January 31, 2006, the Associated Press reported that while remodeling…