{"id":43897,"date":"2015-11-12T02:39:19","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T02:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43897"},"modified":"2015-11-12T02:39:19","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T02:39:19","slug":"afro-mexicans-are-pushing-for-legal-recognition-in-mexicos-national-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43897","title":{"rendered":"Afro-Mexicans Are Pushing For Legal Recognition in Mexico\u2019s National Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/remezcla.com\/culture\/afro-mexicans-legal-recognition-constitution-mexico\/\" target=\"_blank\">Afro-Mexicans Are Pushing For Legal Recognition in Mexico\u2019s National Constitution<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/remezcla.com\" target=\"_blank\">Remezcla<\/a><br \/>\n2015-11-09<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wthdz\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Walter Thompson-Hern\u00e1ndez<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Los Angeles, California<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The myth of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Latin_America\" target=\"_blank\">Latin American<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=22166\" target=\"_blank\">racial democracy<\/a>, scholars believe, began in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brazil\" target=\"_blank\">Brazil<\/a> following the abolishment of slavery in 1888, when government officials declared that high rates of racial mixing had officially absolved the nation of its racial problems. This thinking eventually transcended Brazil and spread to a host of other Latin America countries, including <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mexico\" target=\"_blank\">Mexico<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But Mexico had its own nuanced understanding of the Latin American racial democracy \u2013 one called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=14551\" target=\"_blank\">mestizaje<\/a>, that was created by government officials, intellectuals, and artists following the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mexican_Revolution\" target=\"_blank\">1910 Mexican Revolution<\/a>: the erroneous belief that Mexico\u2019s ethnic and racial mixture was solely composed of indigenous and European ancestry. This was also a time period when Mexico\u2019s citizenry began to believe that \u201cMexicanness\u201d and blackness were mutually exclusive and could not co-exist. Mestizaje, however, did not only exclude blackness from its national patrimony, but also left out a host of other racial identities from Mexico\u2019s conversation about race&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/remezcla.com\/culture\/afro-mexicans-legal-recognition-constitution-mexico\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afro-Mexicans Are Pushing For Legal Recognition in Mexico\u2019s National Constitution Remezcla 2015-11-09 Walter Thompson-Hern\u00e1ndez Los Angeles, California The myth of the Latin American racial democracy, scholars believe, began in Brazil following the abolishment of slavery in 1888, when government officials declared that high rates of racial mixing had officially absolved the nation of its racial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,21,33,1467,8,103],"tags":[4633,2343,19464,18064],"class_list":["post-43897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-census","category-law","category-media-archive","category-mexico","tag-afro-mexicans","tag-afromexicans","tag-remezcla","tag-walter-thompson-hernandez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43897","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=43897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43898,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43897\/revisions\/43898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}