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  • Black Blood Brothers: Confraternities and Social Mobility for Afro-Mexicans

    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”

    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…

  • A Student Traveling Through Costa Chica Picked Up A Camera to Let Afro-Mexicans Tell Their Story

    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…

  • Negro? Prieto? Moreno? A Question of Identity for Black Mexicans

    Negro? Prieto? Moreno? A Question of Identity for Black Mexicans The New York Times 2014-10-25 Randal C. Archibold, Bureau Chief for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean JOSÉ MARÍA MORELOS, Mexico — Hernán Reyes calls himself “negro” — black — plain and simple. After some thought, Elda Mayren decides she is “Afromexicana,” or African-Mexican. Candido…

  • For dark-skinned Mexicans, taint of discrimination lingers

    For dark-skinned Mexicans, taint of discrimination lingers McClatchy DC: Watching Washington and the World 2013-08-22 Tim Johnson, McClatchy Foreign Staff MEXICO CITY — Flip through the print publications exalting the activities of Mexico’s high society and there’s one thing you rarely find: dark-skinned people. No matter that nearly two-thirds of Mexicans consider themselves moreno, the…

  • (Re)mapping the Borderlands of Blackness: Afro-Mexican Consciousness and the Politics of Culture

    (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…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • Blacks may be second class, but they can’t make them leave: Mexican racial formation and immigrant status in Winston-Salem

    Blacks may be second class, but they can’t make them leave: Mexican racial formation and immigrant status in Winston-Salem Latino Studies Volume 10, Issue 1 (Spring/Summer 2012) pages 60-80 DOI: 10.1057/lst.2012.7 Jennifer A. Jones, SBS Diversity Post Doctoral Fellow Ohio State University, Columbus In this article, I investigate how race is produced by looking at…

  • 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…