Finding Afro-Mexico - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Finding Afro-Mexico write by Theodore W. Cohen. This book was released on 2020-05-07. Finding Afro-Mexico available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
African Mexicans and the Discourse on Modern Nation
African Mexicans and the Discourse on Modern Nation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook African Mexicans and the Discourse on Modern Nation write by Marco Polo Hernández Cuevas. This book was released on 2004. African Mexicans and the Discourse on Modern Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In African Mexicans and the Discourse on Modern Nation, author Marco Polo Hern ndez Cuevas explores how the Africaness of Mexican mestizaje was erased from the national memory and identity and how national African ethnic contributions were plagiarized by the criollo elite in modern Mexico. The book cites the concept of a Caucasian standard of beauty prevalent in narrative, film, and popular culture in the period between 1920 and 1968, which the author dubs as the "cultural phase of the Mexican Revolution." The author also delves into how criollo elite disenfranchised non-white Mexicans as a whole by institutionalizing a Eurocentric myth whereby Mexicans learned to negate part of their ethnic makeup. During this time period, wherever African Mexicans, visibly black or not, are mentioned, they appear as "mestizo," many of them oblivious of their African heritage, and others part of a willing movement toward becoming "white." This analysis adopts as a critical foundation Richard Jackson's ideas about black phobia and the white aesthetic, as well as James Snead's coding of blacks.
Before Mestizaje
Before Mestizaje - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Before Mestizaje write by Ben Vinson III. This book was released on 2018. Before Mestizaje available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book deepens our understanding of race and the implications of racial mixture by examining the history of caste in colonial Mexico.
Christians, Blasphemers, and Witches
Christians, Blasphemers, and Witches - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Christians, Blasphemers, and Witches write by Joan Cameron Bristol. This book was released on 2007. Christians, Blasphemers, and Witches available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. New information from Inquisition documents shows how African slaves in Mexico adapted to the constraints of the Church and the Spanish crown in order to survive in their communities.
Taxing Blackness
Taxing Blackness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Taxing Blackness write by Norah L. A. Gharala. This book was released on 2019. Taxing Blackness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "History in North, Central, and South Americas. In the Bourbon New Spain (Mexico), taxes, including those from Mexicans of African descent who were free, were a rich, reliable source of revenue for the Crown. Taxing Blackness examines the experiences of Afromexicans and this tribute to get at the meanings of race, political loyalty, and legal privileges within the Spanish colonial regime. Gharala focuses on both the mechanisms officials used to define the status of free people of African descent as well as the responses of free-colored people to these categories and strategies. Her study spans the eighteenth century and focuses on a single institution to offer readers a closer look at the place of free-colored people in Mexico, which was the most profitable and populous colony of the Spanish Atlantic"--
