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