{"id":42390,"date":"2015-08-25T14:20:53","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T14:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42390"},"modified":"2015-08-25T14:36:08","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T14:36:08","slug":"black-mexico-unearthing-the-third-root","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42390","title":{"rendered":"Black Mexico: Unearthing the \u2018Third Root\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Black Mexico: Unearthing the \u2018Third Root\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Compton Herald<\/a>
\nCompton, California
\n2015-08-16<\/p>\n

Jarrette Fellows, Jr.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Spaniards, African slaves, and indigenous Indians in Colonial Mexico<\/a> forged a unique ethnic blend known as \u2018Black Mexicans<\/a>\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

This multiple-part series will unravel the little-known history of how Mexico\u2019s<\/a> 15th-century assimilation of Spaniards, indigenous Indians, and African slaves into \u201cBlack Mexico,\u201d eventually led to the founding of Los Angeles<\/a> by Black Mexicans and Mestizos in the 17th century when California<\/a> was still under the rule of Mexico. Even though the Black imprint in Mexico is unraveling more and more as time moves on, the reality of the truth is still largely mired in a Shadow History because the masses do not frequent libraries and this truth has never been taught as a history lesson in Mexico, much less as historic text in the U.S. To now, this invaluable historic truth has largely been available as scholarly works. <\/em>The Compton Herald sought out this history, scaled down its volume from multiple scholarly sources, and now present it in nine parts for public consumption \u2014 Jarrette<\/em><\/p>\n

THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE of ancient Spanish America were the Aztecs<\/a>, Mayans<\/a>, Olmecs<\/a>, Toltecs<\/a>, Zapotecs<\/a> and the Mixtecs<\/a>, who inhabited a geographical area encompassing present-day Florida <\/a>and much of what is now the Western U.S.<\/a>, Mexico, and parts of the Caribbean. These ancient peoples comprised the pre-Columbian<\/a> indigenous civilizations before the arrival of all-conquering Spain as a colonizer of the region prior to the 16th century.\u00a0 These indigenous natives constituted modern-day Mexico\u2019s \u201cFirst Root.\u201d…<\/p>\n

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

Black Mexico: Unearthing the \u2018Third Root\u2019 The Compton Herald Compton, California 2015-08-16 Jarrette Fellows, Jr. Spaniards, African slaves, and indigenous Indians in Colonial Mexico forged a unique ethnic blend known as \u2018Black Mexicans\u2019 This multiple-part series will unravel the little-known history of how Mexico\u2019s 15th-century assimilation of Spaniards, indigenous Indians, and African slaves into \u201cBlack […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,459,8,103],"tags":[4633,2343,20820,20819],"class_list":["post-42390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-mexico","tag-afro-mexicans","tag-afromexicans","tag-jarrette-fellows-jr","tag-the-compton-herald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42390","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=42390"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42398,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42390\/revisions\/42398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}