Title: Black Mexico
Description: The essays in this collection build upon a series of conversations and papers that resulted from "New Directions in North American Scholarship on Afro-Mexico," a symposium conducted at Pennsylvania State University in 2004. The issues addressed include contested historiography, social and economic contributions of Afro-Mexicans, social construction of race and ethnic identity, forms of agency and resistance, and contemporary inquiry into ethnographic work on Afro-Mexican communities. Comprised of a core set of chapters that examine the colonial period and a shorter epilogue addressing the modern era, this volume allows the reader to explore ideas of racial representation from the sixteenth century into the twenty-first.
Subjects: Social conditions, Race relations, Blacks, Race identity, History, Blacks, mexico, Blacks, social conditions, Blacks, race identity, Mexico, race relations, Mexico, history, spanish colony, 1540-1810, Mexico, history, to 1810, Black people
Places: Mexico
Time periods: 1810-, Spanish colony, 1540-1810