Finding Afro-Mexico

Finding Afro-Mexico
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 572
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ISBN-10 : 9781108671170
ISBN-13 : 1108671179
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Finding Afro-Mexico by : Theodore W. Cohen

Download or read book Finding Afro-Mexico written by Theodore W. Cohen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-07 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2015, the Mexican state counted how many of its citizens identified as Afro-Mexican for the first time since independence. Finding Afro-Mexico reveals the transnational interdisciplinary histories that led to this celebrated reformulation of Mexican national identity. It traces the Mexican, African American, and Cuban writers, poets, anthropologists, artists, composers, historians, and archaeologists who integrated Mexican history, culture, and society into the African Diaspora after the Revolution of 1910. Theodore W. Cohen persuasively shows how these intellectuals rejected the nineteenth-century racial paradigms that heralded black disappearance when they made blackness visible first in Mexican culture and then in post-revolutionary society. Drawing from more than twenty different archives across the Americas, this cultural and intellectual history of black visibility, invisibility, and community-formation questions the racial, cultural, and political dimensions of Mexican history and Afro-diasporic thought.

México's Nobodies

México's Nobodies
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Publisher : SUNY Press
Total Pages : 352
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ISBN-10 : 9781438463575
ISBN-13 : 143846357X
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Book Synopsis México's Nobodies by : B. Christine Arce

Download or read book México's Nobodies written by B. Christine Arce and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2016-12-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2016 Victoria Urbano Critical Monograph Book Prize, presented by the International Association of Hispanic Feminine Literature and Culture Winner of the 2018 Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize presented by the Modern Language Association Honorable Mention, 2018 Elli Kongas-Maranda Professional Award presented by the Women's Studies Section of the American Folklore Society Analyzes cultural materials that grapple with gender and blackness to revise traditional interpretations of Mexicanness. México’s Nobodies examines two key figures in Mexican history that have remained anonymous despite their proliferation in the arts: the soldadera and the figure of the mulata. B. Christine Arce unravels the stunning paradox evident in the simultaneous erasure (in official circles) and ongoing fascination (in the popular imagination) with the nameless people who both define and fall outside of traditional norms of national identity. The book traces the legacy of these extraordinary figures in popular histories and legends, the Inquisition, ballads such as “La Adelita” and “La Cucaracha,” iconic performers like Toña la Negra, and musical genres such as the son jarocho and danzón. This study is the first of its kind to draw attention to art’s crucial role in bearing witness to the rich heritage of blacks and women in contemporary México.

Afro-Mexicans

Afro-Mexicans
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Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Total Pages : 286
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ISBN-10 : UCSC:32106017208809
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Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Afro-Mexicans by : Chege J. Githiora

Download or read book Afro-Mexicans written by Chege J. Githiora and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about a little known branch of the African Diaspora - Afro-Mexicans. It discusses their conditions of arrival and establishment in Mexico within the context of Spanish colonialism, and the race-based socioracial terms that are the focus of the main study: indio, blanco, nero and moreno. These terms are part of daily life in Mexico, used in variable ways as tags of social identity.

Africans in Colonial Mexico

Africans in Colonial Mexico
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Publisher : Indiana University Press
Total Pages : 289
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ISBN-10 : 9780253217752
ISBN-13 : 025321775X
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Africans in Colonial Mexico by : Herman L. Bennett

Download or read book Africans in Colonial Mexico written by Herman L. Bennett and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2005-02-23 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From secular and ecclesiastical court records, Bennett reconstructs the lives of slave and free blacks, their regulation by the government and by the Church, the impact of the Inquisition, their legal status in marriage and their rights and obligations as Christian subjects.

Colonial Blackness

Colonial Blackness
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Publisher : Indiana University Press
Total Pages : 249
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ISBN-10 : 9780253003614
ISBN-13 : 025300361X
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Colonial Blackness by : Herman L. Bennett

Download or read book Colonial Blackness written by Herman L. Bennett and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-06 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asking readers to imagine a history of Mexico narrated through the experiences of Africans and their descendants, this book offers a radical reconfiguration of Latin American history. Using ecclesiastical and inquisitorial records, Herman L. Bennett frames the history of Mexico around the private lives and liberty that Catholicism engendered among enslaved Africans and free blacks, who became majority populations soon after the Spanish conquest. The resulting history of 17th-century Mexico brings forth tantalizing personal and family dramas, body politics, and stories of lost virtue and sullen honor. By focusing on these phenomena among peoples of African descent, rather than the conventional history of Mexico with the narrative of slavery to freedom figured in, Colonial Blackness presents the colonial drama in all its untidy detail.

Black Mexico

Black Mexico
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 300
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ISBN-10 : UCSD:31822038131041
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Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Black Mexico by : Ben Vinson (III.)

Download or read book Black Mexico written by Ben Vinson (III.) and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume compiles the most recent research on a pivotal topic in Latin American history--Afro-Mexican experiences from pre-conquest to the modern period.

Afro-Mexico

Afro-Mexico
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Publisher : University of Texas Press
Total Pages : 185
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ISBN-10 : 9780292723245
ISBN-13 : 0292723245
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Afro-Mexico by : Anita González

Download or read book Afro-Mexico written by Anita González and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Africans and their descendants have lived in Mexico for centuries, many Afro-Mexicans do not consider themselves to be either black or African. For almost a century, Mexico has promoted an ideal of its citizens as having a combination of indigenous and European ancestry. This obscures the presence of African, Asian, and other populations that have contributed to the growth of the nation. However, performance studies—of dance, music, and theatrical events—reveal the influence of African people and their cultural productions on Mexican society. In this work, Anita González articulates African ethnicity and artistry within the broader panorama of Mexican culture by featuring dance events that are performed either by Afro-Mexicans or by other ethnic Mexican groups about Afro-Mexicans. She illustrates how dance reflects upon social histories and relationships and documents how residents of some sectors of Mexico construct their histories through performance. Festival dances and, sometimes, professional staged dances point to a continuing negotiation among Native American, Spanish, African, and other ethnic identities within the evolving nation of Mexico. These performances embody the mobile histories of ethnic encounters because each dance includes a spectrum of characters based upon local situations and historical memories.