Black Mexico

Description:

The essays in this collection build upon a series of conversations and papers that resulted from "New Directions in North American Scholarship on Afro-Mexico," a symposium conducted at Pennsylvania State University in 2004. The issues addressed include contested historiography, social and economic contributions of Afro-Mexicans, social construction of race and ethnic identity, forms of agency and resistance, and contemporary inquiry into ethnographic work on Afro-Mexican communities. Comprised of a core set of chapters that examine the colonial period and a shorter epilogue addressing the modern era, this volume allows the reader to explore ideas of racial representation from the sixteenth century into the twenty-first.

subjects: Social conditions,  Race relations,  Blacks,  Race identity,  History,  Blacks, mexico,  Blacks, social conditions,  Blacks, race identity,  Mexico, race relations,  Mexico, history, spanish colony, 1540-1810,  Mexico, history, to 1810,  Black people

Places: Mexico

Times: 1810-,  Spanish colony, 1540-1810