{"id":44569,"date":"2015-12-13T01:52:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T01:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44569"},"modified":"2015-12-13T01:52:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T01:52:00","slug":"1-38-million-afro-descendants-are-identified-on-the-mexican-census-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44569","title":{"rendered":"1.38 Million Afro-Descendants Are Identified on the Mexican Census for the First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/remezcla.com\/culture\/afro-mexicans-identified-on-mexico-census-first-time\/\" target=\"_blank\">1.38 Million Afro-Descendants Are Identified on the Mexican Census for the First Time<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/remezcla.com\" target=\"_blank\">Remezcla<\/a><br \/>\n2015-12-10<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sarayimon\" target=\"_blank\">Yara Sim\u00f3n<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mexican_Revolution\" target=\"_blank\">1910 Mexican Revolution<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mexico\" target=\"_blank\">Mexico\u2019s<\/a> national identity has been defined by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=14551\" target=\"_blank\">mestizaje<\/a> \u2013 a term that recognizes mixed racial ancestry of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_World\" target=\"_blank\">New World<\/a> after colonization. But although Mexico\u2019s African presence was considerable from the start of colonization, this \u201cthird root\u201d is often excluded from classic views of mestizaje, which focus on indigenous and European ancestries.<\/p>\n<p>For over 15 years, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Afro-Mexicans\" target=\"_blank\">Afro-Mexicans<\/a> have been been trying to remedy this by pushing for <a href=\"http:\/\/remezcla.com\/culture\/afro-mexicans-legal-recognition-constitution-mexico\/\" target=\"_blank\">formal recognition<\/a> in Mexico\u2019s national constitution. Currently, Mexico and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chile\" target=\"_blank\">Chile<\/a> are the only countries in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Latin_America\" target=\"_blank\">Latin America<\/a> that don\u2019t legally recognize their Afro-descendants as distinct ethnic groups, which activists believe contributes to fight anti-Black racism.<\/p>\n<p>And this year, a group of activists claimed a victory on the path to this recognition. Afro-Mexican advocacy organization Mexico Negro successfully fought for Afro-Mexicans to be included on the national census. According to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/569964\/mexico-has-started-counting-its-afro-mexican-population\/\" target=\"_blank\">Quartz<\/a><\/em>, this year was the first time that people of African descent were able to accurately identify themselves on the census, revealing that 1.2 percent of Mexicans \u2013 1.38 million people \u2013 are of African descent&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/remezcla.com\/culture\/afro-mexicans-identified-on-mexico-census-first-time\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1.38 Million Afro-Descendants Are Identified on the Mexican Census for the First Time Remezcla 2015-12-10 Yara Sim\u00f3n Since the 1910 Mexican Revolution, Mexico\u2019s national identity has been defined by mestizaje \u2013 a term that recognizes mixed racial ancestry of the New World after colonization. But although Mexico\u2019s African presence was considerable from the start of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,21,33,8,103],"tags":[4633,2343,19464,20576],"class_list":["post-44569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-census","category-media-archive","category-mexico","tag-afro-mexicans","tag-afromexicans","tag-remezcla","tag-yara-simon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44569","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=44569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44570,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44569\/revisions\/44570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}