Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Tag: Afro-Mexicans
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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(Re)mapping the Borderlands of Blackness: Afro-Mexican Consciousness and the Politics of Culture Duke University 2013 233 pages Talia Weltman-Cisneros Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Romance Studies in the Graduate School of Duke University The dominant cartography of post-Revolutionary Mexico has relied…
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Afro-Mexico: Dancing between Myth and Reality by Anita González (review) Latin American Music Review Volume 34, Number 2, Fall/Winter 2013 pages 288-291 DOI: 10.1353/lat.2013.0019 Alex E. Chávez, Visiting Assistant Professor Latin American and Latino Studies Program University of Illinois, Chicago Anita González, Afro-Mexico: Dancing between Myth and Reality. With photographs by George O. Jackson and…
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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.