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De barcos y santos:: historia, memoria, y lugar en la identidad mexicana morena o afro-india
No full textResumoEste artículo delinea la forma en que dos relatos de un pueblo ‘afromexicano’ de la Costa Chica de México apuntan a tensiones entre gente "negra" e "india.” Los relatos, que tratan del santo patrimonio del pueblo y de un naufragio de un barco con cargo de gente esclavizada, arrojan luz sobre las afirmaciones de identidad ancladas en la raza y el lugar, especialmente en la fusión de negrura e indigeneidad en la forma del ‘moreno,’ una categoría racial asociada con la Costa Chica. A la vez, los relatos convergen alrededor de eventos históricos concretos y la penetración mutua caracterizada por movimientos espaciales y temporales que han afectado tanto a negros como a indios. Estos movimientos incluyen el comercio de esclavos, el colonialismo, la búsqueda de tierras cultivables, y las migraciones contemporáneas. La historia etnográfica cuyas narraciones entretejo, ubica el desarraigo y la contestación en el centro de los procesos culturales a través de los cuales se construyen lugares e identidades.AbstractThis article examines two stories from an ‘Afromexican’ village on the Costa Chica of Mexico that point to tensions between" black "and" “Indian” peoples. The stories, which deal with the patron saint of the village and the wreck of a slave ship, shed light on affirmations of identity anchored in race and place, especially in the fusion of blackness and indigeneity in the form of ‘moreno’ a racial category associated with the Costa Chica. At the same time, the stories converge around specific historical events and the mutual penetration characterized by spatial and temporal movements that have affected both blacks and Indians. These movements include the slave trade, colonialism, the search for arable land, and contemporary migrations. The ethnographic history whose narrations I interweave, place uprooting and contestation at the center of the cultural processes through which places and identities are constructed.<br/
That little Mexican part of me: race, place and transnationalism among U.S. African-descent Mexicans
No full textThis article uses semi-structured interviews and participant observation to examine transnationalism and notions of race among first- and second-generation young adult Afro-descended Mexicans and Mexican-Americans in the United States. I suggest that transnationally inflected understandings of race encourage both generations to privilege place-based over ancestry-based racial identities. For the first generation, which is mostly undocumented, place is part of their socialization as Mexicans and a way to forge a more secure sense of belonging in the United States. For members of the second generation, place resolves their position as an anomalous “race” not recognized in the United States
The village is like a wheel: rethinking cargos, family, and ethnicity in Highland Mexico, by Roger Magazine
No full textIndian allies and white antagonists: toward an alternative mestizaje on Mexico's Costa Chica
No full textSan Nicolás Tolentino, Guerrero, Mexico, is a ‘mixed’ black-Indian agricultural community on the coastal belt of Mexico’s southern Pacific coast, the Costa Chica. This article examines local expressions of race in San Nicolás in relation to Mexico’s national ideology of mestizaje (race mixing), which excludes blackness but is foundational to Mexican racial identities. San Nicolás’s black-Indians are strongly nationalistic while expressing a collective or regional identity different from those of peoples they identify as Indians and as whites. Such collective expression produces an alternative model of mestizaje, here explored through local agrarian history and several village festivals. It is argued that this alternative model favors Indians and distances whites, thereby challenging dominant forms of Mexican mestizaj
Participant observation in rural Mexico – what my child taught me
No full textThis case study explores the interplay between personal identity and participant observation through the lens of the author’s ethnographic research in a rural Mexican village. My journey as an anthropologist, mother, and outsider shapes my fieldwork and some thematic emphases. I address the community’s cultural intricacies, shedding light on nuanced relationships between children, key symbols, and social identities while underscoring the dynamic nature of ethnographic research, the challenges of objectivity, and how personal circumstances both constrain and enrich the understandings that emerge from shared experiences and perspectives
Chocolate and corn flour: history, race, and place in the making of “black” Mexico
No full textLocated on Mexico's Pacific coast in a historically black part of the Costa Chica region, the town of San Nicolás has been identified as a center of Afromexican culture by Mexican cultural authorities, journalists, activists, and foreign anthropologists. The majority of the town's residents, however, call themselves morenos (black Indians). In Chocolate and Corn Flour, Laura A. Lewis explores the history and contemporary culture of San Nicolás, focusing on the ways that local inhabitants experience and understand race, blackness, and indigeneity, as well as on the cultural values that outsiders place on the community and its residents.Drawing on more than a decade of fieldwork, Lewis offers a richly detailed and subtle ethnography of the lives and stories of the people of San Nicolás, including community residents who have migrated to the United States. San Nicoladenses, she finds, have complex attitudes toward blackness—as a way of identifying themselves and as a racial and cultural category. They neither consider themselves part of an African diaspora nor deny their heritage. Rather, they acknowledge their hybridity and choose to identify most deeply with their community
Afroméxico. By Ben Vinson III and Bobby Vaughn. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2004. Pp. 135. Notes. Bibliography. $12.00 paper
No full textDe la sodomía a la superstición:: el pasivo activo y transgresiones corporales en la Nueva España
No full textEngaging primary documents and scholarly debates, this article examines an array of practices in colonial Mexico as it undertakes a discursive account of how gender ideologies informed the politics of discipline and a range of behaviors that went from atypical sexuality to cross-dressing and witchcraft. It speaks to a world set ambiguously between the violations of social norms and the uncertainties of official culture as it examines these heterodox practices, especially those related to Indians
Home is where the heart is: Afro-Latino migration and cinder-block homes on Mexico's Costa Chica
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