Chocolate and corn flour : history, race, and place in the making of "Black" Mexico

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    • Lewis, Laura A.

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Chocolate and corn flour : history, race, and place in the making of "Black" Mexico

Laura A. Lewis

Duke University Press, 2012

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Bibliography: p. [341]-362

Includes index

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内容説明

Located on Mexico's Pacific coast in a historically black part of the Costa Chica region, the town of San Nicolas has been identified as a center of Afromexican culture by Mexican cultural authorities, journalists, activists, and foreign anthropologists. The majority of the town's residents, however, call themselves morenos (black Indians). In Chocolate and Corn Flour, Laura A. Lewis explores the history and contemporary culture of San Nicolas, focusing on the ways that local inhabitants experience and understand race, blackness, and indigeneity, as well as on the cultural values that outsiders place on the community and its residents.Drawing on more than a decade of fieldwork, Lewis offers a richly detailed and subtle ethnography of the lives and stories of the people of San Nicolas, including community residents who have migrated to the United States. San Nicoladenses, she finds, have complex attitudes toward blackness-as a way of identifying themselves and as a racial and cultural category. They neither consider themselves part of an African diaspora nor deny their heritage. Rather, they acknowledge their hybridity and choose to identify most deeply with their community.

目次

Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Lay of the Land 15 2. Identity in Discourse: The "Race" Has Been Lost 55 3. Identity in Performance 85 4. Africa in Mexico: An Intellectual History 119 5. Culture Work: So Much Money 155 6. Being from Here 189 7. A Family Divided? Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces 231 8. Transnationalism, Place, and the Mundane 265 Conclusion. What's in a Name? 305 Notes 323 Bibliography 341 Index 363

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