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Chocolate and corn flour : history, race, and place in the making of "Black" Mexico / Laura A. Lewis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lewis, Laura A., 1959-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Black people--Mexico.
- Black people.
- Black people--Race identity--Mexico.
- Mexico--Race relations.
- Mexico.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (390 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Chocolate and Corn Flour explores the history and contemporary culture of African descended Mexicans in the agricultural village of San Nicolás on the southern Pacific Coast of Guerrero (the Costa Chica). This ethnography emphasizes that local history is crucial to understanding identity and explores how racial categories are complicated by globalization and the influence of outsiders.
- Contents:
- The lay of the land
- Identity in discourse : the "race" has been lost
- Identity in performance
- Africa in Mexico, an intellectual history
- Culture work : so much money
- Being from here
- A family divided? : centripetal and centrifugal forces
- Transnationalism, place and the mundane.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613664266
- 9781280687327
- 1280687320
- 9780822394778
- 0822394774
- OCLC:
- 793202284
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