Finding Afro-Mexico : race and nation after the Revolution / Theodore W. Cohen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohen, Theodore W., 1983- author.

Series:

Afro-Latin America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Mexico--History.

Black people.

Black people--Mexico--Social conditions.

Black people--Race identity--Mexico.

Race relations.

Black people--Race identity.

Social conditions.

History.

Mexico--Race relations.

Mexico.

Mexico--History--1810-.

Black people--Social conditions.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 335 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I MAKING BLACKNESS MEXICAN, 1810

1940S

1. Black Disappearance

2. Marxism and Colonial Blackness

3. Making Blackness Transnational

pt. II FINDING AFRO-MEXICO, 1940S

2015

4. Looking Back to Africa

5. Africanizing "La bamba"

6. Caribbean Blackness

7. The Black Body in Mexico.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Cohen, Theodore W., 1983- Finding Afro-Mexico

ISBN:

9781108493017

1108493017

OCLC:

1130322299