Afro-Mexican Lives in the Long Nineteenth Century

Name: Afro-Mexican Lives in the Long Nineteenth Century
Brand: Cambridge University Press
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By Cohen, Theodore W.

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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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Number of Pages:: 298
Release Date:: 2025-11-30
Publication Date:: 2025-10-27
Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1009456016
ISBN13:: 9781009456012
Weight:: 637 g
Height:: 157 cm
Width:: 235 cm
Thickness:: 22 cm

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