Hern�andez Cuevas, Marco Polo,

The Afro-Mexican Ancestors and the Nation They Constructed / Marco Polo Hern�andez Cuevas ; with a foreword by Jes�us Garc�ia. - 1 online resource (vi, 145 pages)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-131) and index.

Foreword. Deconstructing the absences of our Afromexicanness / by Jesus "Chucho" Garcia -- Introduction -- Chapter one. The Spanish lynching of Mexican Maroon Pedro el Negro and the genocide of Africans and African offspring in 19th-century New Spain -- Chapter two. The black armies of the South : a historical reconstruction of the Mexican War of Manumission and Independence (1810-1821) -- Chapter three. The nineteenth-century foundational [African] Mexican novel vs. the negrista novel -- Chapter four. The Mexican colonial term "chino" is a referent of Afrodescendant. Chapter five. West Africa and the origin of Mexican rice cultivation and rice gastronomy.


English.

9780779907793 0779907795


Blacks--History.--Mexico
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Minority Studies.
Blacks.
Race relations.
Regions & Countries - Americas.
History & Archaeology.
Mexico.


Mexico--Race relations--History.
Mexico.


Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.

F1392.B55 / H473 2015eb

305.800972