Afro-Mexican Lives in the Long Nineteenth Century
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- 20 November 2025
- 04 December 2025
- ISBN:
- 9781009456005
- 9781009456012
- Dimensions:
- (229 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.544kg, 298 Pages
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- Subjects:
- Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Area Studies, Latin American Studies, History, Latin American History
- Series:
- Afro-Latin America
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- Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Area Studies, Latin American Studies, History, Latin American History
- Series:
- Afro-Latin America
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Book description
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.
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