{"id":37946,"date":"2014-10-26T17:33:47","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T17:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37946"},"modified":"2014-10-26T17:34:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T17:34:42","slug":"negro-prieto-moreno-a-question-of-identity-for-black-mexicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37946","title":{"rendered":"Negro? Prieto? Moreno? A Question of Identity for Black Mexicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/10\/26\/world\/americas\/negro-prieto-moreno-a-question-of-identity-for-black-mexicans.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Negro? Prieto? Moreno? A Question of Identity for Black Mexicans<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2014-10-25<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/randyNYT\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Randal C. Archibold<\/strong><\/a>, Bureau Chief for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mazatecochco_de_Jos%C3%A9_Mar%C3%ADa_Morelos\" target=\"_blank\">JOS\u00c9 MAR\u00cdA MORELOS, Mexico<\/a> \u2014 Hern\u00e1n Reyes calls himself \u201cnegro\u201d \u2014 black \u2014 plain and simple.<\/p>\n<p>After some thought, Elda Mayren decides she is \u201cAfromexicana,\u201d or African-Mexican.<\/p>\n<p>Candido Escuen, a 58-year-old <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Papaya\" target=\"_blank\">papaya<\/a> farmer, is not quite sure what word to use, but he knows he is not <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mestizo\" target=\"_blank\">mestizo<\/a>, or mixed white and native Indian, which is how most Mexicans describe themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrieto,\u201d or dark, \u201cis what a lot of people call me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>This isolated village is named for an independence hero, thought to have had black ancestors, who helped abolish slavery in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mexico\" target=\"_blank\">Mexico<\/a>. It lies in the rugged hills of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Southwestern_Mexico\" target=\"_blank\">southwestern Mexico<\/a>, among a smattering of towns and hamlets that have long embraced a heritage from African slaves who were brought here to work in mines and on sugar plantations in the 16th century.<\/p>\n<p>Just how many people are willing to share that pride may soon be put to the test as Mexico moves to do something it has not attempted in decades and never on its modern census: <strong>ask people if they consider themselves black.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Or Afromexican. Or \u201cmoreno,\u201d \u201cmascogo,\u201d \u201cjarocho,\u201d or \u201ccoste\u00f1o\u201d \u2014 some of the other terms sometimes used to describe black Mexicans.<\/p>\n<p>What term or terms to use is not just a matter of personal and societal debate, but a longstanding dilemma that the government is hoping finally to resolve&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article and view the slide show <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/10\/26\/world\/americas\/negro-prieto-moreno-a-question-of-identity-for-black-mexicans.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Negro? Prieto? Moreno? A Question of Identity for Black Mexicans The New York Times 2014-10-25 Randal C. Archibold, Bureau Chief for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean JOS\u00c9 MAR\u00cdA MORELOS, Mexico \u2014 Hern\u00e1n Reyes calls himself \u201cnegro\u201d \u2014 black \u2014 plain and simple. After some thought, Elda Mayren decides she is \u201cAfromexicana,\u201d or African-Mexican. Candido [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,21,33,459,8,103,394],"tags":[2343,18276,18275,18274,2640,18273,18272,18278,18277,2327],"class_list":["post-37946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-census","category-history","category-media-archive","category-mexico","category-socialscience","tag-afromexicans","tag-candido-escuen","tag-elda-mayren","tag-hernan-reyes","tag-new-york-times","tag-randal-archibold","tag-randal-c-archibold","tag-ricardo-bucio-mujica","tag-sagrario-cruz-carretero","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37946","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=37946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}