{"id":46545,"date":"2016-04-11T00:02:46","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T00:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46545"},"modified":"2016-04-11T01:52:57","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T01:52:57","slug":"the-black-people-erased-from-history-bbc-news-magazine-2016-04-10-arlene-gregorius-bbc-mexico-more-than-a-million-people-in-mexico-are-descended-from-african-slaves-and-identify-as-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46545","title":{"rendered":"The black people ‘erased from history’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The black people ‘erased from history’<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

BBC News Magazine<\/a>
\n2016-04-10<\/p>\n

Arlene Gregorius<\/a><\/strong>, BBC Mexico<\/p>\n

More than a million people in Mexico<\/a> are descended from African slaves and identify as “black”, “dark” or “Afro-Mexican” even if they don’t look black. But beyond the southern state of Oaxaca<\/a> they are little-known and the community’s leaders are now warning of possible radical steps to achieve official recognition.<\/em><\/p>\n

“The police made me sing the national anthem<\/a> three times, because they wouldn’t believe I was Mexican,” says Chogo el Bandeno<\/a>, a black Mexican singer-songwriter.<\/p>\n

“I had to list the governors of five states too.”<\/p>\n

He was visiting the capital, Mexico City<\/a>, hundreds of miles from his home in southern Mexico, when the police stopped him on suspicion of being an illegal immigrant.<\/p>\n

Fortunately his rendition of the anthem and his knowledge of political leaders convinced the police to leave him alone, but other Afro-Mexicans<\/a> have not been so fortunate…<\/p>\n

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

The black people ‘erased from history’ BBC News Magazine 2016-04-10 Arlene Gregorius, BBC Mexico More than a million people in Mexico are descended from African slaves and identify as “black”, “dark” or “Afro-Mexican” even if they don’t look black. But beyond the southern state of Oaxaca they are little-known and the community’s leaders are now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,33,459,8,103,26],"tags":[4633,2343,23485,23486,8597,12431,23487,8471,23489,23488,23484],"class_list":["post-46545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-census","category-history","category-media-archive","category-mexico","category-politics","tag-afro-mexicans","tag-afromexicans","tag-arlene-gregorius","tag-bbc-mexico","tag-bbc-news","tag-bbc-news-magazine","tag-clemente-jesus-lopez","tag-costa-chica","tag-humberto-hebert-silva-silva","tag-israel-reyes","tag-oaxaca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46545","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=46545"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46559,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46545\/revisions\/46559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}