{"id":25807,"date":"2012-10-06T19:11:20","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T19:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25807"},"modified":"2016-10-26T16:18:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T16:18:28","slug":"travels-of-self-discovery-african-heritage-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25807","title":{"rendered":"Travels of self-discovery: African heritage in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/inews6.americanobserver.net\/articles\/travels-self-discovery-african-heritage-mexico\" target=\"_blank\">Travels of self-discovery: African heritage in Mexico<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inews6.americanobserver.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">American Observer: American University&#8217;s Graduate Journalism Magazine<\/a><br \/>\nAmerican University, Washington, D.C.<br \/>\n2009-11-12<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carmen Castro<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cesareo Moreno clearly remembers his family visit to Guanajuato, Mexico, in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>He was on a mission to learn more about his Mexican heritage. Moreno told his uncle he wanted to learn more about the African culture.<\/p>\n<p>His uncle thought Moreno was talking about a project [what project? Is it African-related?] on the Mexican coastal state of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Veracruz\" target=\"_blank\">Veracruz<\/a>, Moreno says. When he told his uncle his research was about [African in?] their home state of Guanajuato, Moreno says his gave a look of disbelief.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe tells me in a dead serious way &#8230; just no there isn\u2019t. It\u2019s like it doesn\u2019t exist. Not in our backyard. Not in our family. Not in our hometown,\u201d Moreno said.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s reactions like this that have motivated Moreno to put so much time into learning about the history of Afro-Mexicans, descendants of African slaves.\u00a0 They were brought to Mexico during the Spanish colonization era in the early 16th century. It is a study that emerged in the 1940s with the groundbreaking research of anthropologist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gonzalo_Aguirre_Beltr%C3%A1n\" target=\"_blank\">Gonzalo Aguirre Beltr\u00e1n<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/inews6.americanobserver.net\/articles\/travels-self-discovery-african-heritage-mexico\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travels of self-discovery: African heritage in Mexico American Observer: American University&#8217;s Graduate Journalism Magazine American University, Washington, D.C. 2009-11-12 Carmen Castro Cesareo Moreno clearly remembers his family visit to Guanajuato, Mexico, in 2004. He was on a mission to learn more about his Mexican heritage. Moreno told his uncle he wanted to learn more about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,21,459,8,103],"tags":[4633,2343,12326,12325,12327,12329,12328],"class_list":["post-25807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-mexico","tag-afro-mexicans","tag-afromexicans","tag-american-observer","tag-american-observer-american-universitys-graduate-journalism-magazine","tag-carmen-castro","tag-cesareo-moreno","tag-gonzalo-aguirre-beltran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25807","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=25807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49620,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25807\/revisions\/49620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}