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Sobre nuestros cuerpos negros: Pureza colonial y racialización en el México contemporáneo
Tenorio Lopez, Ariadna Nohemi
Tenorio Lopez, Ariadna Nohemi
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Over Our Black Bodies: Colonial Purity and Racialization in Contemporary Mexico explores the coloniality inscribed in the performance of blackness in contemporary Mexico. The chapters draw on black postcolonial studies, critical race theory, and black performance studies as well on my on archival research in Puebla, Veracruz, Ciudad de Mexico, and Oaxaca to juxtapose the history of Miguel, a boy from Africa sold as slave in Mexico in 1672, and his descendants with the life and work of three Afro-descendants artist. The central claim is that in mestizo societies, such as Mexico, the colonial inscription on Afro-descendants’ racialized bodies complicate the definition and limits of blackness. In other words, Afro-descendants’ bodies, memories and histories are still inscribed within a racial hierarchy hidden by mestizaje.
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2023-05-31
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University of Kansas
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Latin American studies, black postcolonial studies, blackness, critical race theory, mestizaje, Mexico, racialization