{"id":41752,"date":"2015-07-13T14:40:40","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T14:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41752"},"modified":"2015-07-13T14:51:26","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T14:51:26","slug":"mexicos-hidden-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41752","title":{"rendered":"Mexico’s hidden people"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mexico’s hidden people<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Cable News Network<\/a> (CNN)
\n2015-07-10<\/p>\n

Abby Reimer<\/strong><\/a>, Special to CNN<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nPhotograph: Mara Sanchez Renero<\/small><\/p>\n

(CNN)\u2014An estimated 200,000 Africans were brought to Mexico<\/a> under slavery, which ended in the country in 1829. Yet Afro-Mexicans<\/a> remain a marginalized and often forgotten part of Mexico’s identity.<\/p>\n

Photographer Mara Sanchez Renero<\/a> first learned about Afro-Mexicans as a teenager, when she traveled to the Costa Chica<\/a> region in southern Mexico. The black community there told her they were descendants of Africans shipwrecked off the Pacific coast in 1900.<\/p>\n

But it wasn’t until she traveled back last year that she realized what little she knew. There, traditions and customs rooted in Africa — such as “La Danza del Diablos,” or the dance of the devils — have survived.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t know there was that much African culture in Mexico,” Sanchez Renero said. “They didn’t teach me that in school.”<\/p>\n

Sanchez Renero dug deeper into Afro-Mexican history and culture, ultimately deciding to tell the story of Afro-Mexicans through a series of photographs called “The Cimarron and Fandango<\/a>.”…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article and view the photographs here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mexico’s hidden people Cable News Network (CNN) 2015-07-10 Abby Reimer, Special to CNN Photograph: Mara Sanchez Renero (CNN)\u2014An 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 […]<\/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":[20433,4633,2343,9447,8471,20432,147],"class_list":["post-41752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-mexico","tag-abby-reimer","tag-afro-mexicans","tag-afromexicans","tag-cable-news-network","tag-costa-chica","tag-mara-sanchez-renero","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41752","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=41752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}