Black Mexico: Race and Society from Colonial to Modern Times

By: Vinson, Ben

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826347010
• ISBN13: 9780826347015
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.1"