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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.
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.
George J. Sánchez is a historian and author; their research focuses on the experiences of Mexican Americans in the United States. He is currently a professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and History at the University of Southern California.
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 ...
Obama became the first Black president in American history after winning the 2008 election race against John McCain. While in office, he earned a Nobel Peace Prize, worked to limit climate change ...
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.
People of Mexican descent, including U.S.-born citizens, were put on trains and buses and deported to Mexico during the Great Depression. In Los Angeles, up to 75,000 were deported by train in one ...
Learn more about the most iconic portrayals of Black relationships on film and TV. These top 10 couples show human and nuanced examples of Black romance on the big and small screens.