Afro-Mexican Lives in the Long Nineteenth Century by Theodore... - 9781009456012

Afro-Mexican Lives in the Long Nineteenth CenturySlavery, Freedom, and the Writing of History\nAuthor(s): Theodore W. Cohen, Nicole von Germeten\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781009456012, 978-1009456012\nSynopsis\nAs 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.