{"id":53716,"date":"2017-04-29T22:38:49","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T22:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53716"},"modified":"2017-04-29T22:38:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T22:38:49","slug":"exploring-mexicos-african-heritage-with-dr-marco-polo-hernandez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53716","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Mexico\u2019s African Heritage with Dr. Marco Polo\u00a0Hern\u00e1ndez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/losafrolatinos.com\/2012\/12\/09\/exploring-mexicos-african-heritage-with-dr-marco-polo-hernandez\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Exploring Mexico\u2019s African Heritage with Dr. Marco Polo\u00a0Hern\u00e1ndez<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/losafrolatinos.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Los Afro-Latinos: A Blog Following the Afro-Latino Experience<\/a><br \/>\n2012-12-09<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NicolleMK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Nicolle Morales Kern<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/losafrolatinos.com\/2012\/12\/09\/exploring-mexicos-african-heritage-with-dr-marco-polo-hernandez\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/losafrolatinos.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/mcuevas.jpg?w=300\" width=\"330\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to look deeper into our Africanness to understand ourselves,\u201d says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nccu.edu\/directory\/details.cfm?id=mcuevas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Marco Polo Hern\u00e1ndez<\/a>, a professor of Spanish and Afro-Hispanic studies at North Carolina Central University, in a recent phone interview. Mexico\u2019s African heritage is not normally discussed or highlighted in conversation, or even education. But, Dr. Hern\u00e1ndez, who\u00a0holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic and Italian Studies from the University of British Columbia, a M.A. in Spanish Language and Peninsular and Latin American literatures, and a B.A. in General Studies &amp; Spanish language and literatures from Portland State University, says that is slowly starting to change.<\/p>\n<p>Growing up in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mexico_City\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mexico City<\/a>, Dr. Marco Polo Hern\u00e1ndez Cuevas was not raised in a household or a society that highlighted the African influence on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mexico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mexico<\/a>. While <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jos%C3%A9_Mar%C3%ADa_Morelos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Father Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Morelos<\/a>, who led the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mexican_War_of_Independence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Independence movement<\/a> from 1811 to 1815, is talked about, his African heritage is not. In school, everyone was told that they were <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mestizo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mestizos<\/a> (racially mixed), as most Latinos believe they are because the country\u2019s African roots are rarely discussed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/losafrolatinos.com\/2012\/12\/09\/exploring-mexicos-african-heritage-with-dr-marco-polo-hernandez\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe need to look deeper into our Africanness to understand ourselves,\u201d says Dr. Marco Polo Hern\u00e1ndez, a professor of Spanish and Afro-Hispanic studies at North Carolina Central University, in a recent phone interview. Mexico\u2019s African heritage is not normally discussed or highlighted in conversation, or even education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,459,8,103],"tags":[4633,2343,21976,21977,1605,26905,26906],"class_list":["post-53716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-mexico","tag-afro-mexicans","tag-afromexicans","tag-los-afro-latinos","tag-los-afro-latinos-a-blog-following-the-afro-latino-experience","tag-marco-polo-hernandez-cuevas","tag-marco-polo-hernandez","tag-nicolle-morales-kern"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53716","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=53716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53717,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53716\/revisions\/53717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}