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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.
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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.
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.
Among the topics examined in the eight chapters of the book are the Haitian Revolution, the Mexican War of Independence, and racial capitalism. With the title of the book's Epilogue Ortiz calls for "a new origin narrative of American history." [2] For this book the author was awarded the 2018 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award. [3]
Black Hispanic and Latino Americans, also called Afro-Hispanics, [3] Afro-Latinos, [4] Black Hispanics, or Black Latinos, [3] are classified by the United States Census Bureau, Office of Management and Budget, and other U.S. government agencies [5] as Black people living in the United States with ancestry in Latin America or Spain and/or who speak Spanish and/or Portuguese as either their ...
Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race is a book by Laura E. Gómez, professor of Law and American Studies at the University of New Mexico.It discusses the history of Mexican Americans in the context of race relations and racism in the United States, as well as the racial identity, legal status, and colonization patterns of Mexican Americans.