{"id":46503,"date":"2016-04-05T01:49:31","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T01:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46503"},"modified":"2016-04-05T01:50:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T01:50:36","slug":"exploring-whiteness-in-a-black-indian-village-on-mexicos-costa-chica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46503","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Whiteness in a Black-Indian Village on Mexico\u2019s Costa Chica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/latinamericandiaries.blogs.sas.ac.uk\/2015\/06\/29\/exploring-whiteness-in-a-black-indian-village-on-mexicos-costa-chica\/\" target=\"_blank\">Exploring Whiteness in a Black-Indian Village on Mexico\u2019s Costa Chica<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latinamericandiaries.blogs.sas.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\">The Latin American Diaries<\/a><br \/>\nInstitute of Latin American Studies<br \/>\n2015-06-29<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/ml\/about\/staff\/ll15g12.page\" target=\"_blank\">Laura A. Lewis<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Latin American Anthropology<br \/>\n<em>University of Southampton<\/em><\/p>\n<p>During the early colonial period, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mexico\" target=\"_blank\">Mexico<\/a> had one of the largest African slave populations in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Latin_America\" target=\"_blank\">Latin America<\/a>. Today, there are numerous historically black communities along the coast of the states of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guerrero\" target=\"_blank\">Guerrero<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oaxaca\" target=\"_blank\">Oaxaca<\/a> \u2013 a region known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Costa_Chica\" target=\"_blank\">Costa Chica<\/a>. Towards the end of the 16th century, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monarchy_of_Spain\" target=\"_blank\">Spanish Crown<\/a> granted tracts of land in the region to several <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Conquistador\" target=\"_blank\">conquistadors<\/a> who had quelled local Indian resistance. These conquistadors brought to the coast cattle for ranching, and \u2013 in the colonial vernacular \u2013 blacks and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">mulattoes<\/a>, both free and enslaved, to work as cowboys, in agriculture, and as overseers, including of Indian labor.<\/p>\n<p>As time went on, two ethnic zones developed: the foothills and highlands of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sierra_Madre_del_Sur\" target=\"_blank\">Sierra Madre del Sur<\/a> mountain range at the Costa Chica\u2019s northern edge held Indian communities, while the zone closest to the coast became an ethnic mix that included Indians drawn willingly or unwillingly into the colonial <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/ambit\" target=\"_blank\">ambit<\/a>. On the coast, blacks, mulattoes and Indians worked together for Spaniards. Indians also taught blacks and mulattoes native healing, agricultural techniques and local building styles. Because demographics tilted towards African-descent males, informal and formal unions between them and Indian women were common. By the middle of the 17th century, many coastal belt villages were Afro-Indigenous&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/latinamericandiaries.blogs.sas.ac.uk\/2015\/06\/29\/exploring-whiteness-in-a-black-indian-village-on-mexicos-costa-chica\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exploring Whiteness in a Black-Indian Village on Mexico\u2019s Costa Chica The Latin American Diaries Institute of Latin American Studies 2015-06-29 Laura A. Lewis, Professor of Latin American Anthropology University of Southampton During the early colonial period, Mexico had one of the largest African slave populations in Latin America. Today, there are numerous historically black communities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,21,459,8,103,3015,6940],"tags":[8471,23448,23450,8470,10101,23449],"class_list":["post-46503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-mexico","category-native-americans","category-slavery","tag-costa-chica","tag-guerrero","tag-latin-american-diaries","tag-laura-a-lewis","tag-san-nicolas-tolentino","tag-the-latin-american-diaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46503","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=46503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46506,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46503\/revisions\/46506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}