Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Indian allies and white antagonists: toward an alternative mestizaje on Mexico’s Costa Chica Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies Published online: 2015-10-05 DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2015.1094873 Laura A. Lewis, Professor of Latin American Anthropology University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom San Nicolás Tolentino, Guerrero, Mexico, is a ‘mixed’ black-Indian agricultural community on the coastal belt of Mexico’s…
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The black people ‘erased from history’ BBC News Magazine 2016-04-10 Arlene Gregorius, BBC Mexico More than a million people in Mexico are descended from African slaves and identify as “black”, “dark” or “Afro-Mexican” even if they don’t look black. But beyond the southern state of Oaxaca they are little-known and the community’s leaders are now…
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Exploring Whiteness in a Black-Indian Village on Mexico’s Costa Chica The Latin American Diaries Institute of Latin American Studies 2015-06-29 Laura A. Lewis, Professor of Latin American Anthropology University of Southampton During the early colonial period, Mexico had one of the largest African slave populations in Latin America. Today, there are numerous historically black communities…
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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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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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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.