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Blackness in Mexico - Afro-Mexican Recognition and the Production of Citizenship in the Costa Chica (Paperback)
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Blackness in Mexico - Afro-Mexican Recognition and the Production of Citizenship in the Costa Chica (Paperback)
Series: New World Diasporas
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An up-close view of the movement to make "Afro-Mexican" an official
cultural category Through historical and ethnographic research,
Blackness in Mexico delves into the ongoing movement toward
recognizing Black Mexicans as a cultural group within a nation that
has long viewed the non-Black mestizo as the archetypal citizen.
Anthony Jerry focuses on this process in Mexico's Costa Chica
region in order to explore the relational aspects of citizenship
and the place of Black people in how modern citizenship is
imagined. Jerry's study of the Costa Chica shows the political
stakes of the national project for Black recognition; the shared
but competing interests of the Mexican government, activists, and
townspeople; and the ways that the state and NGOs are working to
make "Afro-Mexican" an official cultural category. He argues that
that the demand for recognition by Black communities calls
attention to how the mestizo has become an intuitive point of
reference for identifying who qualifies as "other." Jerry also
demonstrates that while official recognition can potentially
empower African descendants, it can simultaneously reproduce the
same logics of difference that have brought about their social and
political exclusion. One of few books to center Blackness within a
discussion of Mexico or to incorporate a focus on Mexico into Black
studies, this book ultimately argues that the official project for
recognition is itself a methodology of mestizaje, an opportunity
for the government to continue to use Blackness to define the
national subject and to further the Mexican national project. A
volume in the series New World Diasporas, edited by Kevin A.
Yelvington Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining
the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the
National Endowment for the Humanities.
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