Finding Afro-Mexico

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-108-73031-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 349 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 569 g

Reihe: Afro-Latin America

In 2015, the Mexican state counted how many of its citizens identified as Afro-Mexican for the first time since independence. Finding Afro-Mexico reveals the transnational interdisciplinary histories that led to this celebrated reformulation of Mexican national identity. It traces the Mexican, African American, and Cuban writers, poets, anthropologists, artists, composers, historians, and archaeologists who integrated Mexican history, culture, and society into the African Diaspora after the Revolution of 1910. Theodore W. Cohen persuasively shows how these intellectuals rejected the nineteenth-century racial paradigms that heralded black disappearance when they made blackness visible first in Mexican culture and then in post-revolutionary society. Drawing from more than twenty different archives across the Americas, this cultural and intellectual history of black visibility, invisibility, and community-formation questions the racial, cultural, and political dimensions of Mexican history and Afro-diasporic thought.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cohen, Theodore W.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Sklaverei
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Cohen, Theodore W.
Theodore W. Cohen is Associate Professor in the History and Geography Department at Lindenwood University, Missouri.