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Chocolate and corn flour : history, race, and place in the making of "Black" Mexico / Laura A. Lewis.

e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection 2012 Available online

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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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