Attempts to understand what the presence of Black music means in the absence of Black people. Is this an expression of a global circulation of Afro-Caribbean cultural trends as symbols of belonging and difference among urban youngsters? Does it take us back to the history of Quintana Roo as a Caribbean region and the Black Atlantic? Is it a form of revision of Mexican national ethnic mixture and inclusion of other population groups? Adapted from the source document.
Journal Article, Taking an Afrocentric approach to the study of Africans who were enslaved by the Spanish in Mexico, the author traveled to Mexico on many occasions to study the retention of African cultural forms, concepts, practices, and values. This article provides the reader with a critical literature brief on the issues surrounding the current discourse.
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273 p, Born of the union between African maroons and the Island Carib on colonial St. Vincent, and later exiled to Honduras, the Garifuna way of life combines elements of African, Island Carib, and colonial European culture. Beginning in the 1940s, this cultural matrix became even more complex as Garifuna began migrating to the United States, forming communities in the cities of New York, New Orleans, and Los Angeles. Moving between a village on the Caribbean coast of Honduras and the New York City neighborhoods of the South Bronx and Harlem, England traces the daily lives, experiences, and grassroots organizing of the Garifuna.
Los Angeles; Berkeley: Museum of Cultural History, University of California; University of California Press
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The exhibition associated with this book was organized by the Museum of Cultural History, UCLA, and held Oct. 14-Dec. 7, 1980 at the Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, UCLA, and at other museums., 237 p
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Special issue of the African-Caribbean Institute of Jamaica Review., 133 p, A collection of case studies focused on the formation of mostly independent communities in the region. All of the communities under consideration emerged in the immediate post-emancipation period. The condition, historical and cultural, which they have in common is the rise and fall of the West Indian plantation system.
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38 p., 019: 35143042; edited by Minority Rights Group; 0305-6252; Text first published in 'No longer invisible' by Minority Rights Publications: 1995; Authors: Jameelah S. Muhammad ... [et al.]; Includes bibliographical references (p. 38)
Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press
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204 p., Examines cultural and literary material produced by Afro-Mexicans on the Costa Chica of Guerrero and Oaxaca, Mexico, to challenge the selective and Euro-centric view of Mexican identity in the discourse about racial and ethnic homogeneity and the existence of black people in the country, as well as assumptions and stereotypes about gender and sexuality.
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258 p., Explores a little known branch of the African Diaspora - Afro-Mexicans - and discusses their conditions of arrival and establishment in Mexico within the context of Spanish colonialism and the socioracial terms that are the focus of the main study: indio, blanco, nero and moreno. These terms are part of daily life in Mexico, used in variable ways as tags of social identity.
