Afro Mexican Constructions Of Diaspora Gender Identity And Nation

Author : Paulette Ramsay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Arts, Black
ISBN : 9766405808

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Afro-Mexican Constructions of Diaspora, Gender, Identity and Nation by Paulette Ramsay Pdf

"Paulette Ramsay's study analyses cultural and literary material produced by Afro-Mexicans on the Costa Chica de Guerrero y Oaxaca, Mexico, to undermine and overturn claims of mestizaje or Mexican homogeneity. The interdisciplinary research draws on several theoretical constructs: cultural studies, linguistic anthropology, masculinity studies, gender studies, feminist criticisms, and broad postcolonial and postmodernist theories, especially as they relate to issues of belonging, diaspora, cultural identity, gender, marginalization, subjectivity and nationhood. The author points to the need to bring to an end all attempts at extending the discourse, whether for political or other reasons, that there are no identifiable Afro-descendants in Mexico. The undeniable existence of distinctively black Mexicans and their contributions to Mexican multiculturalism is patently recorded in these pages. The analyses also aid the agenda of locating Afro-Mexican literary and cultural production within a broad Caribbean aesthetics, contributing to the expansion of the Caribbean as a broader cultural and historical space which includes Central and Latin America"--

Author : Paulette Ramsay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9766405794

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Afro-Mexican Constructions of Diaspora, Gender, Identity and Nation by Paulette Ramsay Pdf

Paulette Ramsay's study analyses cultural and literary material produced by Afro-Mexicans on the Costa Chica de Guerrero y Oaxaca, Mexico, to undermine and overturn claims of mestizaje or Mexican homogeneity.The interdisciplinary research draws on several theoretical constructs: cultural studies, linguistic anthropology, masculinity studies, gender studies, feminist criticisms, and broad postcolonial and postmodernist theories, especially as they relate to issues of belonging, diaspora, cultural identity, gender, marginalization, subjectivity and nationhood. The author points to the need to bring to an end all attempts at extending the discourse, whether for political or other reasons, that there are no identifiable Afro-descendants in Mexico. The undeniable existence of distinctively black Mexicans and their contributions to Mexican multiculturalism is patently recorded in these pages.The analyses also aid the agenda of locating Afro-Mexican literary and cultural production within a broad Caribbean aesthetics, contributing to the expansion of the Caribbean as a broader cultural and historical space which includes Central and Latin America."This seminal work will provoke much-needed rehistoricization of the national histories relating to Mexico. . . . The varied theoretical paradigms used to frame the critical arguments add to the intellectual richness of the work. . . . This work is a critical and exhaustive study that significantly advances scholarship on Afro-Mexico . . . [and] forges an interdisciplinary conversation on blacks in the region like no other work before it."--Antonio D. Tillis, Professor of Hispanic Studies and Dean, School of Languages, Cultures, and World Affairs, College of Charleston"The text excels in its reading of the popular poetry of Afro-Mexicans of Costa Chica and situates these texts in a clear and coherent way that will be greatly appreciated by students and scholars. The author contextualizes all of the texts (corridos and poetry) with careful analysis and interpretation. . . . This work represents the first comprehensive study of the literary/cultural production of Afro-Mexicans in book-length form."--Dorothy E. Mosby, Professor of Spanish, Latina/o, Latin American Studies, Mount Holyoke College

Author : Chege J. Githiora
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Black people
ISBN : UCSC:32106017208809

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Afro-Mexicans by Chege J. Githiora Pdf

This book is about a little known branch of the African Diaspora - Afro-Mexicans. It discusses their conditions of arrival and establishment in Mexico within the context of Spanish colonialism, and the race-based socioracial terms that are the focus of the main study: indio, blanco, nero and moreno. These terms are part of daily life in Mexico, used in variable ways as tags of social identity.

Author : Anthony Russell Jerry
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813072814

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Blackness in Mexico by Anthony Russell Jerry Pdf

An up-close view of the movement to make “Afro-Mexican” an official cultural category Through historical and ethnographic research, Blackness in Mexico delves into the ongoing movement toward recognizing Black Mexicans as a cultural group within a nation that has long viewed the non-Black Mestizo as the archetypal citizen. Anthony Jerry focuses on this process in Mexico’s Costa Chica region in order to explore the relational aspects of citizenship and the place of Black people in how modern citizenship is imagined. Jerry’s study of the Costa Chica shows the political stakes of the national project for Black recognition; the shared but competing interests of the Mexican government, activists, and townspeople; and the ways that the state and NGOs are working to make “Afro-Mexican” an official cultural category. He argues that that the demand for recognition by Black communities calls attention to how the Mestizo has become an intuitive point of reference for identifying who qualifies as “other.” Jerry also demonstrates that while official recognition can potentially empower African descendants, it can simultaneously reproduce the same logics of difference that have brought about their social and political exclusion. One of few books to center Blackness within a discussion of Mexico or to incorporate a focus on Mexico into Black studies, this book ultimately argues that the official project for recognition is itself a methodology of mestizaje, an opportunity for the government to continue to use Blackness to define the national subject and to further the Mexican national project. A volume in the series New World Diasporas, edited by Kevin A. Yelvington Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Author : Herman L. Bennett
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253003614

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Colonial Blackness by Herman L. Bennett Pdf

Asking readers to imagine a history of Mexico narrated through the experiences of Africans and their descendants, this book offers a radical reconfiguration of Latin American history. Using ecclesiastical and inquisitorial records, Herman L. Bennett frames the history of Mexico around the private lives and liberty that Catholicism engendered among enslaved Africans and free blacks, who became majority populations soon after the Spanish conquest. The resulting history of 17th-century Mexico brings forth tantalizing personal and family dramas, body politics, and stories of lost virtue and sullen honor. By focusing on these phenomena among peoples of African descent, rather than the conventional history of Mexico with the narrative of slavery to freedom figured in, Colonial Blackness presents the colonial drama in all its untidy detail.

Author : Tristano Volpato
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8897243193

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Social Exclusion and the Negotiation of Afro-Mexican Identity in the Costa Chica of Oaxaca, Mexico by Tristano Volpato Pdf

Author : Nichole M. Garcia,Cristobal Salinas Jr,Jesus Cisneros
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000381696

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Studying Latinx/a/o Students in Higher Education by Nichole M. Garcia,Cristobal Salinas Jr,Jesus Cisneros Pdf

This edited volume examines the diverse Latinx/a/o student populations in higher education. Offering innovative approaches to understand the asset-based contributions of Latinx/a/o students and the communities they come from, this book showcases scholars from various disciplines, including, psychology, sociology, higher education, history, gender studies, and beyond. Chapter authors argue that various forms of knowledge and culturally relevant methodologies can help advance and promote the success and navigation of Latinx/a/o students. The contributors of this book challenge the deficit framing often found in higher education, and expand conceptualizations, theories, and methodologies used in the study of Latinx/a/o student populations to incorporate AfroLatinx/a/o perspectives, center Central American students in research, and bring Undocumented Critical Theory into the conversation. This important work provides a guide for higher education and student affairs scholars and practitioners, helping create knowledge to better understand Latinx/a/o student populations in higher education.

Author : Theodore W. Cohen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1108730310

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Finding Afro-Mexico by Theodore W. Cohen Pdf

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.

Author : Miguel Valerio
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316514382

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Sovereign Joy by Miguel Valerio Pdf

An exploration of how Afro-Mexicans affirmed their culture, subjectivities and colonial condition through festive culture and performance.

Author : Rosita Scerbo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781040089521

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The Afro-Descendant Woman in Latin American Diasporic Visual Art by Rosita Scerbo Pdf

By studying multiple cultural expressions of Blackness throughout different regions of the Americas, the chapters of this book consider the relationship that social and historical processes such as sovereignty and colonialism have on cultural productions made by and about Black Latin American women. Rosita Scerbo analyzes a range of power dynamics as represented in different artistic media of the Afro-Latin/x American community, including photography, muralism, performance, paintings, and digital art. The book acknowledges that racial and gender equity cannot exist without Intersectionality and that is why the entirety of the chapters focus on cultural and visual productions exclusively created by Afro-descendant women. The Black Latin American women featured in the various chapters, spanning multiple artistic mediums and originating from various Latin American and Caribbean nations, including Mexico, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Brazil, and Cuba, collectively pursue the central aim of foregrounding the Afro-descendant woman’s experience. Simultaneously, they strive to enhance the visibility and acknowledgment of gendered Afro-diasporic culture within the Latin American context. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, gender studies, women’s studies, Latin American studies, African diaspora studies, and race and ethnic studies.

Author : Herman L. Bennett
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253217752

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Africans in Colonial Mexico by Herman L. Bennett Pdf

From secular and ecclesiastical court records, Bennett reconstructs the lives of slave and free blacks, their regulation by the government and by the Church, the impact of the Inquisition, their legal status in marriage and their rights and obligations as Christian subjects.

Author : Marco Polo Hernández Cuevas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Black people
ISBN : 1495503259

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The Afro-Mexican Ancestors and the Nation They Constructed by Marco Polo Hernández Cuevas Pdf

This work evaluates the essential contribution of Africans and Afrodescendants in contemporary Mexico.

Author : Sherwin K. Bryant,Rachel Sarah O'Toole,Ben Vinson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252036637

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Africans to Spanish America by Sherwin K. Bryant,Rachel Sarah O'Toole,Ben Vinson Pdf

Africans to Spanish America expands the diaspora framework to include Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, and Cuba, exploring the connections and disjunctures between colonial Latin America and the African diaspora in the Spanish empires. Analysis of the regions of Mexico and the Andes opens up new questions of community formation that incorporated Spanish legal strategies in secular and ecclesiastical institutions as well as articulations of multiple African identities. The volume is arranged around three sub-themes: identity construction in the Americas; the struggle by enslaved and free people to present themselves as civilized, Christian, and resistant to slavery; and issues of cultural exclusion and inclusion. Contributors are Joan Cameron Bristol, Nancy E. van Deusen, Leo Garafalo, Herbert S. Klein, Charles Beatty Medina, Karen Y. Morrison, Rachel Sarah O'Toole, Frank "Trey" Proctor, and Michele B. Reid.

Author : Micaela Díaz-Sánchez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : African diaspora in art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105211352815

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(In)between Nation and Diaspora by Micaela Díaz-Sánchez Pdf

Author : Rosita Scerbo,Concetta Bondi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781666910346

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AfroLatinas and LatiNegras by Rosita Scerbo,Concetta Bondi Pdf

AfroLatinas as a subject of scholarship are woefully underrepresented, and this edited volume, AfroLatinas and LatiNegras: Culture, Identity, and Struggle from an Intersectional Perspective, offers an important and timely intervention. The consistent attention to AfroLatinas’ agency across all the chapters is empowering and attentive to the difficult circumstances of asserting that agency, and to the tremendous breadth of what agency can look like. The authors argue for the analytical power of the concept of Intersectionality while considering the hegemonic pressures on AfroLatinidad and the essentializing moves that an intersectional approach enables: evading, overthrowing, and resisting systems of power. Through the study of multiple cultural expressions of Blackness, such as photography, colonial inquisition records, dance, music, fiction, non-fiction, poetic memoir, and religious expression, and throughout different region of the Americas, the chapter contributors of this book consider the relationship that social and historical processes, such as sovereignty and colonialism, have on narrative and cultural production. Rosita Scerbo, Concetta Bondi, and the contributors acknowledge that racial and gender equity cannot exist without Intersectionality, and the inclusion of activist voices broadens this volume's reach and links theory to praxis.