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Black and Brown explores the lives and experiences of African Americans living in the southern United States borderlands with Mexico during the Mexican Revolution from 1910 to 1920, how the revolution affected them, and how they impacted the revolution.
Afro-Mexicans (Spanish: Afromexicanos), also known as Black Mexicans (Spanish: Mexicanos negros), [2] are Mexicans of total or predominantly Sub-Saharan African ancestry. [3] [2] As a single population, Afro-Mexicans include individuals descended from both free and enslaved Africans who arrived to Mexico during the colonial era, [3] as well as post-independence migrants.
At the time of the outbreak of the insurgency for independence, there was a large Afro-Mexican population of mainly free blacks and mulattos, as well as mixed-race castas who had some component of Afro-Mexican heritage. Black slavery still existed as an institution, although the numbers of enslaved had declined from the high point in the 1600s ...
Black in Latin America is a documentary television series that aired on PBS on April 19, 2011, in the United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The series is based on the 2011 book Black in Latin America by Henry Louis Gates Jr. , who produced the four-episode series.
Sanchez argues that Mexican-Americans were able to create a unique identity influenced by Mexican and American cultures, which was shaped by the experience of immigration and discrimination. [ 3 ] The book is divided into chapters, organized chronologically, each dealing with a different aspect of the Mexican-American experience. [ 3 ]
One of the monuments planted on the border of Mexico and the United States after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. This image is now on display at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum.
This notorious Ochoa crime family's role in the Colombian drug trade, depicted in Netflix's 'Griselda,' has also been explored in 'Narcos.'
After the forced relocation of the Seminoles and Black Seminoles from Florida to Indian Territory, a group led by Seminole sub-chief Wild Cat and Black Seminole chief John Horse moved to northern Mexico. [2] The group settled at El Nacimiento in 1852. [3] They worked for the Mexican government to protect against Indian raids.