{"id":18616,"date":"2013-04-05T04:44:39","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T04:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=18616"},"modified":"2019-07-18T20:39:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T20:39:27","slug":"chocolate-and-corn-flour-history-race-and-place-in-the-making-of-%e2%80%9cblack%e2%80%9d-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=18616","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate and Corn Flour: History, Race, and Place in the Making of \u201cBlack\u201d Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chocolate and Corn Flour: History, Race, and Place in the Making of \u201cBlack\u201d Mexico<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Duke University Press<\/a>
\nApril 2012
\n292 pages
\n43 photographs, 2 maps
\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-5132-0
\nCloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-5121-4<\/p>\n

Laura A. Lewis<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Anthropology in Modern Languages and Linguistics
\nUniversity of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n

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Located on Mexico\u2019s Pacific coast in a historically black part of the Costa Chica<\/a> region, the town of San Nicol\u00e1s<\/a> has been identified as a center of Afromexican culture by Mexican cultural authorities, journalists, activists, and foreign anthropologists. The majority of the town\u2019s residents, however, call themselves morenos (black-Indians). In Chocolate and Corn Flour<\/em>, Laura A. Lewis explores the history and contemporary culture of San Nicol\u00e1s, 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.<\/p>\n

Drawing on more than a decade of fieldwork, Lewis offers a richly detailed and subtle ethnography of the lives and stories of the people of San Nicol\u00e1s, as well as of community residents who have migrated to the United States<\/a>. San Nicoladenses, she finds, have complex attitudes toward blackness\u2014both their own and as a racial and cultural category. They neither consider themselves part of an African diaspora nor do they deny their heritage. Rather, they acknowledge their hybridity and choose to identify most deeply with their community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In “Chocolate and Corn Flour,” Laura A. Lewis explores the history and contemporary culture of San Nicol\u00e1s, 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,11,21,459,8,103,17],"tags":[4633,2343,8471,302,23448,8470,2278,20753,8472],"class_list":["post-18616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-books","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-mexico","category-monographs","tag-afro-mexicans","tag-afromexicans","tag-costa-chica","tag-duke-university-press","tag-guerrero","tag-laura-a-lewis","tag-laura-lewis","tag-mexico","tag-san-nicolas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18616"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58534,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18616\/revisions\/58534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}