{"id":4791,"date":"2010-01-28T20:51:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T20:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=4791"},"modified":"2013-08-02T20:57:40","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T20:57:40","slug":"africa-in-mexico-a-repudiated-heritageafrica-en-mexico-una-herencia-repudiada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=4791","title":{"rendered":"Africa in Mexico: A Repudiated Heritage\/\u00c1frica en M\u00e9xico: una herencia repudiada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/mellenpress.com\/mellenpress.cfm?bookid=7158&amp;pc=9\" target=\"_blank\">Africa in Mexico: A Repudiated Heritage\/\u00c1frica en M\u00e9xico: una herencia repudiada<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mellenpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Edwin Mellen Press<\/a><br \/>\n2007<br \/>\n140 pages<br \/>\nISBN10: 0-7734-5216-8; ISBN13: 978-0-7734-5216-9<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nccu.edu\/directory\/details.cfm?id=mcuevas&amp;search=&amp;department=Modern%20Foreign%20Language\" target=\"_blank\">Marco Polo Hern\u00e1ndez Cuevas<\/a><\/strong>, Asssociate Professor of Spanish<br \/>\n<em>North Carolina Central University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mellenpress.com\/mellenpress.cfm?bookid=7158&amp;pc=9\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.alibris.com\/isbn\/9780773452169.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This study explores the African presence in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mexico\" target=\"_blank\">Mexico<\/a> and the impact it has had on the development of Mexican national identity over the past centuries. By analyzing Mexican <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\">miscegenation<\/a> from a perspective identified as mestizaje positivo (positive miscegenation) where an equality exists among all ethnic heritages are equal forming the glue that binds together the new ethnicity, it reveals that Mexico\u2019s African heritage is alive and well. In the end, the author calls for further examinations into the damage caused to the majority of the Mexican population by a Eurocentric mentality that marks them as inferior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa in Mexico: A Repudiated Heritage\/\u00c1frica en M\u00e9xico: una herencia repudiada Edwin Mellen Press 2007 140 pages ISBN10: 0-7734-5216-8; ISBN13: 978-0-7734-5216-9 Marco Polo Hern\u00e1ndez Cuevas, Asssociate Professor of Spanish North Carolina Central University This study explores the African presence in Mexico and the impact it has had on the development of Mexican national identity over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,1649,11,21,459,8,103,17,394],"tags":[20761,4633,2343,1928,1926,1605,20753,30],"class_list":["post-4791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-anthropology","category-books","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-mexico","category-monographs","category-socialscience","tag-africa","tag-afro-mexicans","tag-afromexicans","tag-edwin-mellen-press","tag-marco-hernandez-cuevas","tag-marco-polo-hernandez-cuevas","tag-mexico","tag-miscegenation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4791","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=4791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}