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• Author/Creator:Jerry, Anthony Russell, author.
  
• Title:Blackness in Mexico : Afro-Mexican Recognition and the Production of Citizenship in the Costa Chica / Anthony Russell Jerry.
  
• ISBN:9780813070438
  9780813069661
  9780813080123
  
• Edition:First.
  
• Publication:Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2023]
  
• Manufacture: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2023
  
• Copyright notice date: ©[2023]
  
• Physical Description:1 online resource (234 pages).
  
• Links:Online book
  

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• Summary:"An up-close view of the movement to make "Afro-Mexican" an official cultural category Through historical and ethnographic research, Blackness in Mexico delves into the ongoing movement toward recognizing Black Mexicans as a cultural group within a nation that has long viewed the non-Black mestizo as the archetypal citizen. Anthony Jerry focuses on this process in Mexico's Costa Chica region in order to explore the relational aspects of citizenship and the place of Black people in how modern citizenship is imagined. Jerry's study of the Costa Chica shows the political stakes of the national project for Black recognition; the shared but competing interests of the Mexican government, activists, and townspeople; and the ways that the state and NGOs are working to make "Afro-Mexican" an official cultural category. He argues that that the demand for recognition by Black communities calls attention to how the mestizo has become an intuitive point of reference for identifying who qualifies as "other." Jerry also demonstrates that while official recognition can potentially empower African descendants, it can simultaneously reproduce the same logics of difference that have brought about their social and political exclusion. One of few books to center Blackness within a discussion of Mexico or to incorporate a focus on Mexico into Black studies, this book ultimately argues that the official project for recognition is itself a methodology of mestizaje, an opportunity for the government to continue to use Blackness to define the national subject and to further the Mexican national project. A volume in the series New World Diasporas, edited by Kevin A. Yelvington Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities"--
  "This book delves into the ongoing movement toward recognizing Black Mexicans as a cultural group within the nation, focusing on this process in the Costa Chica region in order to explore the relational aspects of citizenship and the place of Black people in how modern citizenship is imagined"--
  
• Variant and related titles:Project MUSE complete collection 2023.
  
• Format:Book
• Series:New world diasporas
  Book collections on Project MUSE.
  
• Contents:Chasing Blackness: Racial Geography and a Methodology for Locating -- Blackness in Mexico -- Dark Matter, Ideology, and Blackness in the Conceptualization of -- Mestizaje -- Recognizing Culture and Making Difference Official -- Citizenship, Black Value, and the Production of the Black Subject in -- Mexico -- A Black Subject Position and Narrative Representations of Blackness in -- the Costa Chica -- Conclusion: Black Visibility and the Limits of Black Recognition in Mexico
  
• Subjects: Black people--Mexico--Costa Chica--Social conditions.
  Black people--Mexico--Costa Chica--History.
  Citizenship--Mexico--Costa Chica--History.
  Black people--Race identity--Mexico--Costa Chica.
  Race relations.
  Citizenship.
  Black people--Race identity.
  Black people.
  Costa Chica (Mexico)--Race relations--History.
  Mexico--Costa Chica.
  
• Genre/Form:History.
  
• Also listed under:Project Muse. distributor