Lewis Chocolate and Corn Flour

History, Race, and Place in the Making of "Black" Mexico
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9477-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 392 Seiten

Chocolate and Corn Flour explores the history and contemporary culture of African descended Mexicans in the agricultural village of San Nicolás on the southern Pacific Coast of Guerrero (the Costa Chica). This ethnography emphasizes that local history is crucial to understanding identity and explores how racial categories are complicated by globalization and the influence of outsiders.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lewis, Laura A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

1. The Lay of the Land 15

2. Identity in Discourse: The "Race" Has Been Lost 55

3. Identity in Performance 85

4. Africa in Mexico: An Intellectual History 119

5. Culture Work: So Much Money 155

6. Being from Here 189

7. A Family Divided? Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces 231

8. Transnationalism, Place, and the Mundane 265

Conclusion. What's in a Name? 305

Notes 323

Bibliography 341

Index 363

Über Autor(innen)

Laura A. Lewis is Professor of Anthropology at James Madison University and the author of Hall of Mirrors: Power, Witchcraft and Caste in Colonial Mexico, also published by Duke University Press.