Finding Afro-Mexico - Race and Nation After the Revolution

"December 8, 2015, inaugurated a new period in Afro-Mexican history. For the first time since September 16, 1810, when Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla declared Mexican independence from Spain, the federal government counted its African-descended population as such. According to the intercensal survey completed by the INEGI in March of that year, 1.4 million citizens identified themselves "in accordance with their culture, history, and traditions" as "Afro-Mexican or Afro-descendant." As 1.2% of the national populace, these numbers appeared small, particularly in comparison to the 25.7 million people who self-reported as indigenous, the only other ethnic group that the government chose to include"--

List of contents

List of Figures and Maps; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Part I. Making Blackness Mexican, 1810-1940s; Introduction; 1. Black Disappearance; 2. Marxism and Colonial Blackness; 3. Making Blackness Transational; Part II. Finding Afro-Mexico, 1940s-2015; 4. Looking Back to Africa; 5. Africanizing "La bamba"; 6. Caribbean Blackness; 7. The Black Body in Mexico; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

About the author

Theodore W. Cohen is Associate Professor in the History and Geography Department at Lindenwood University, Missouri.

Summary

Interrogating the racial, cultural, and political foundations of Mexican nationality and the African Diaspora, Theodore W. Cohen reveals how Mexicans, African Americans, and Cubans have understood black identity in Mexico since the 1910 Revolution. This study provides crucial context for the position of Afro-Mexicans in today's society.

Product details

• Authors: Theodore W. Cohen, Theodore W. (Lindenwood University Cohen
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781108730310
• ISBN: 978-1-108-73031-0
• No. of pages: 349
• Series: Afro-Latin America
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), HISTORY / Africa / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, Social discrimination & inequality, African History, History of the Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Slavery and abolition of slavery, Social discrimination and social justice