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Afro-Mexican Lives in the Long Nineteenth Century

Afro-Mexican Lives in the Long Nineteenth Century - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Theodore W. Cohen (Editor), Nicole Von Germeten (Editor)Series:Afro-Latin AmericaPublish date:12/4/2025Pages:298
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781009456012ISBN-10:1009456016UPC:9781009456012Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Latin AmericaSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.81 inchesWeight:1.2522Product ID:SC4R4PAJ78
As the first book-length examination of abolition and its legacies in Mexico, this collection reveals innovative social, cultural, political, and intellectual approaches to Afro-Mexican history. It complicates the long-standing belief that Afro-Mexicans were erased from the nation. The volume instead shows how they created their own archival legibility by continuing and modifying colonial-era forms of resistance, among other survival strategies. The chapters document the lives and choices of Afro-descended peoples, both enslaved and free, over the course of two centuries, culminating during the Mexican Revolution of 1910. Contributors examine how Afro-Mexicans who lived under Spanish rule took advantage of colonial structures to self-advocate and form communities. Beginning with the war for independence and continuing after the abolition of slavery and caste in the 1820s, Afro-descended citizens responded to and, at times, resisted the claims of racial disappearance to shape both local and national politics.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781009456012ISBN-10:1009456016UPC:9781009456012Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Latin AmericaSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.81 inchesWeight:1.2522Product ID:SC4R4PAJ78
Cohen, Theodore W.: - Theodore W. Cohen is Associate Professor of Africana Studies and History at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. His book Finding Afro-Mexico: Race and Nation after the Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2020) won the Howard F. Cline Book Prize in Mexican History from the Latin American Studies Association.Von Germeten, Nicole: - Nicole von Germeten is Professor of History at Oregon State University. Her many publications include Death in Old Mexico: The 1789 Dongo Murders and How They Shaped the History of a Nation (Cambridge University Press, 2023).
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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