Category: Mexico

  • Blackness and Mestizaje in Mexico and Central America Africa World Press 2013 176 pages ISBN: 978-1592219339 Edited by: Elisabeth Cunin, Sociologist Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France Odile Hoffmann, Geographer Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France American configurations, because of their originality, force us to adopt plural visions, toward the margins, with particular…

  • Race, color, and income inequality across the Americas Demographic Research Volume 31 Article 24 (2014-09-19) pages 735-756 DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2014.31.24 Stanley Bailey, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Andrew Penner, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Background: Racial inequality in the U.S. is typically…

  • Guadalupe and the Castas: The Power of a Singular Colonial Mexican Painting Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos Volume 31, Number 2 pages 218-247 DOI: 10.1525/mex.2015.31.2.218 Sarah Cline, Research Professor of History University of California, Santa Barbara A mid-eighteenth-century casta painting by Luis de Mena uniquely unites the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe and casta (mixed-race) groupings,…

  • In Memoriam: Tony Gleaton The afrolatin@ forum 2015-09-01 Tony Gleaton, among the first photographers to document Latin Americans of African descent, passed away last week. He leaves behind an impressive body of work which undoubtedly contributed to the growing Black consciousness movement throughout the Americas. Tony began his Latin American photographic journey in the southern…

  • Black Mexico: Unearthing the ‘Third Root’ The Compton Herald Compton, California 2015-08-16 Jarrette Fellows, Jr. Spaniards, African slaves, and indigenous Indians in Colonial Mexico forged a unique ethnic blend known as ‘Black Mexicans’ This multiple-part series will unravel the little-known history of how Mexico’s 15th-century assimilation of Spaniards, indigenous Indians, and African slaves into “Black…

  • Tony Gleaton: Photographing The African Story Across The Americas Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2015-08-23 Karen Grigsby Bates Photographer Tony Gleaton died last Friday after struggling with a particularly aggressive cancer for 18 months. He was working, signing prints, talking to museums (several have his work in their collections,…

  • Tony Gleaton, 67, Dies, Leaving Legacy in Pictures of Africans in the Americas The New York Times 2015-08-18 Bruce Weber Tony Gleaton, a photographer who turned his back on a career in New York fashion and embarked on an itinerant artistic quest, documenting the lives of black cowboys and creating images of the African diaspora…

  • “We Are Not Racists, We Are Mexicans”: Privilege, Nationalism and Post-Race Ideology in Mexico Critical Sociology Published online before print 2015-06-18 DOI: 10.1177/0896920515591296 Mónica G. Moreno Figueroa, Lecturer in Sociology University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Emiko Saldívar, Associate Project Scientist Department of Anthropology University of California, Santa Barbara This article analyses the conflicting understandings surrounding…

  • The Global African – Mexican Afro-descendants The Global African 2014-12-03 Bill Fletcher, Host Randal Archibold, Bureau Chief for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean The New York Times (Author of the article “Negro? Prieto? Moreno? A Question of Identity for Black Mexicans”) William Loren Katz Author of: Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage Each week on…

  • Early Afro-Mexican Settlers in California C-SPAN: Created by Cable 2015-05-20 Host: California Historical Society Professor Carlos Manuel Salomon, author of Pio Pico: The Last Governor of Mexican California, talked about Mexicans of African descent who were some of the first non-Indian settlers in California. Many came from Sinaloa and Sonora, Mexico, with the Anza Expedition in…