Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Tag: San Nicolás Tolentino
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This article examines local expressions of race in San Nicolás in relation to Mexico’s national ideology of mestizaje (race mixing), which excludes blackness but is foundational to Mexican racial identities.
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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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Blacks, Black Indians, Afromexicans: the Dynamics of Race, Nation, and Identity in a Mexican Moreno Community (Guerrero) American Ethnologist Volume 27, Issue 4, November 2000 pages 898–626 DOI: 10.1525/ae.2000.27.4.898 Laura A. Lewis, Professor of Anthropology James Madison University In this article, I explore identity formation in Mexico from the perspective of residents of San Nicolás…