Laura A Lewis

Chocolate and Corn Flour

History, Race, and Place in the Making of Black Mexico

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Chocolate and Corn Flour explores the history and contemporary culture of African descended Mexicans in the agricultural village of San Nicolás on the southern Pacific Coast of Guerrero (the Costa Chica). This ethnography emphasizes that local history is crucial to understanding identity and explores how racial categories are complicated by globalization and the influence of outsiders.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780822351320
• ISBN-10: 0822351323
• Artikelnr.: 34163223

Autorenporträt

Laura A. Lewis is Professor of Anthropology at James Madison University and the author of Hall of Mirrors: Power, Witchcraft and Caste in Colonial Mexico, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. The Lay of the Land 15
2. Identity in Discourse: The "Race" Has Been Lost 55
3. Identity in Performance 85
4. Africa in Mexico: An Intellectual History 119
5. Culture Work: So Much Money 155
6. Being from Here 189
7. A Family Divided? Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces 231
8. Transnationalism, Place, and the Mundane 265
Conclusion. What's in a Name? 305
Notes 323
Bibliography 341
Index 363