The Afro-Mexican Ancestors and the Nation They Constructed
By: Marco Polo Hernández Cuevas ; with a foreword by Jesús García
Contributors: García, Jesús, 1954- writer of foreword
Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Lewiston, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 145
ISBN-13: 9781495503252
Subjects: Race relations; Blacks; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-131) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword. Deconstructing the absences of our Afromexicanness / by Jesus "Chucho" Garcia; title: Introduction; title: Chapter one. The Spanish lynching of Mexican Maroon Pedro el Negro and the genocide of Africans and African offspring in 19th-century New Spain; title: Chapter two. The black armies of the South : a historical reconstruction of the Mexican War of Manumission and Independence (1810-1821); title: Chapter three. The nineteenth-century foundational [African] Mexican novel vs. the negrista novel; title: 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.