Black Mexico: Race and Society from Colonial to Modern Times

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Vinson, Ben
Published: 10/01/2009
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 9780826347015
Pages: 278
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.14h x 6.50w x 0.85d