Finding Afro-Mexico

Race and Nation after the Revolution

AvTheodore W. Cohen

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-05-07
Mått:159 x 236 x 25 mm
Vikt:630 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Afro-Latin America
Antal sidor:348
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108493017

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

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'A powerful, provocative, and penetrating book, Finding Afro-Mexico embarks upon a scholarly quest to find how blackness became Mexican over the course of the twentieth century. Cohen beseeches scholars to look for different evidence, better inspect biases, and be sensitive to the multifaceted and connected power of ideologies. This book will be an eye-opener for many, and the topic of much discussion for years to come.' Ben Vinson III, Provost, Case Western Reserve University and author of Before Mestizaje: The Frontiers of Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico

Innehållsförteckning

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