Afro-Mexican Lives in the Long Nineteenth Century: Slavery, Freedom, and the Writing of History

Theodore W. Cohen (Curatore)

Nicole von Germeten (Curatore)

Cambridge University Press, 2025

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.

• Curatore: Theodore W. Cohen, Nicole von Germeten
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Afro-Latin America
• Anno: 2025
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 298 p.
• Peso: 544 gr.
• EAN: 9781009456012

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