Finding Afro-Mexico: Race and Nation After the Revolution

ISBN-13: 9781108730310 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 349 str.

Theodore W. Cohen

Opis

A global cultural and intellectual history of African-descended Mexicans who gained social and demographic visibility after the Revolution of 1910.

Recenzje

'Cohen's is not a microhistory, not an effort to detail the actual lived experiences of these communities, but an effort to detail the intellectual project of documenting Blackness in Mexico, and in that it succeeds.' Alexander Dawson, H-Net Reviews

Spis treści

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