Tag: Mexico

  • 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…

  • Chinos and Paisanos: Chinese Mexican Relations in the Borderlands Pacific Historical Review Volume 79, Number 1 (February 2010) Pages 50–85 DOI: 10.1525/phr.2010.79.1.50 Julian Lim Cornell University Using the testimonio of Manuel Lee Mancilla, a Chinese Mexican man born in Mexicali in 1921, this article explores the experiences of the Chinese in northern Mexico in the…

  • Afro-Mexico: Dancing between Myth and Reality University of Texas Press December 2010 183 pages 62 b&w illus, 14 color photos 7 x 10 in. Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-292-72324-5 Anita González, Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Theatre Arts State University of New York, New Paltz Photographs by George O. Jackson and José Manuel Pellicer Foreword by…

  • Pinturas de Casta: Mexican Caste Paintings, a Foucauldian Reading New Readings School of Modern Languages, Cardiff University Volume 10 (July 2009) page 1-17 Nasheli Jiménez del Val Cardiff University This article looks at the genre of casta painting developed in colonial Mexico during the eighteenth century. The genre consists of a series of paintings representing…

  • Mexican Art Genre Reveals 18th-Century Attitudes on Racial Mixing