{"id":51183,"date":"2017-01-16T00:11:16","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T00:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51183"},"modified":"2017-01-16T00:11:16","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T00:11:16","slug":"meet-the-afro-mexicans-connecting-to-their-african-roots-through-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51183","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Afro-Mexicans connecting to their African roots through dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/venturesafrica.com\/meet-the-afro-mexicans-connecting-their-roots-through-dance\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Meet the Afro-Mexicans connecting to their African roots through dance<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/venturesafrica.com\" target=\"_blank\">Ventures Africa<\/a><br \/>\n2017-01-05<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chinemeremoti\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Iroegbu Chinaemerem Oti<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/venturesafrica.com\/meet-the-afro-mexicans-connecting-their-roots-through-dance\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/venturesafrica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/the-obatala-768x527.png\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cBased on your culture, history, and traditions, do you consider yourself Black, meaning Afro-Mexican or Afro-descendant?\u201d \u2013 MEXICO\u2019S 2015 Intercensal Survey<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The sound of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bat%C3%A1_drum\" target=\"_blank\">Bata drums<\/a> filled the air as girls, with printed scarfs tied around their waists and\u00a0white or yellow dots painted on their faces, danced to the fervent rhythm, their feet and waists moving vigorously at the same time. As their left legs leave the floor, their right legs replace them, while their waists responding with a seesaw movement. This is an African dance performed by an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Afro-Mexicans\" target=\"_blank\">Afro-Mexican<\/a> group, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Mi92OnIy8XI\" target=\"_blank\">Obatala<\/a>, for the purpose of connecting with their African roots. They live in the southern state of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oaxaca\" target=\"_blank\">Oaxaca,\u00a0Mexico<\/a>\u00a0and tour various regions of the state to create awareness with their energetic and beautiful dance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the dances are from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Africa\" target=\"_blank\">Africa\u2019s<\/a> northeastern region, we chose this area because after researching on the internet, we realised that that\u2019s where the slaves that came from our town came from. Our dance troupe did the research and we learned those dances,\u201d Anai Herrera, one of the lead dancers, said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/venturesafrica.com\/meet-the-afro-mexicans-connecting-their-roots-through-dance\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet the Afro-Mexicans connecting to their African roots through dance Ventures Africa 2017-01-05 Iroegbu Chinaemerem Oti \u201cBased on your culture, history, and traditions, do you consider yourself Black, meaning Afro-Mexican or Afro-descendant?\u201d \u2013 MEXICO\u2019S 2015 Intercensal Survey The sound of Bata drums filled the air as girls, with printed scarfs tied around their waists and\u00a0white [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,1649,24,21,459,8,103],"tags":[4633,2343,25995,25993,25994,25992],"class_list":["post-51183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-anthropology","category-arts","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-mexico","tag-afro-mexicans","tag-afromexicans","tag-anai-herrera","tag-iroegbu-chinaemerem-oti","tag-obatala","tag-ventures-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51183","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=51183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51184,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51183\/revisions\/51184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}