Finding Afro-Mexico : race and nation after the Revolution /
December 8, 2015, inaugurated a new period in Afro-Mexican history. For the first time since September 16, 1810, when Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla declared Mexican independence from Spain, the federal government counted its African-descended population as such. According to the intercensal surve...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Afro-Latin America.
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| Summary: | December 8, 2015, inaugurated a new period in Afro-Mexican history. For the first time since September 16, 1810, when Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla declared Mexican independence from Spain, the federal government counted its African-descended population as such. According to the intercensal survey completed by the INEGI in March of that year, 1.4 million citizens identified themselves "in accordance with their culture, history and traditions" as "Afro-Mexican or Afro-descendant." As 1.2% of the national populace, these numbers appeared small, particularly in comparison to the 25.7 million people who self-reported as indigenous, the only other ethnic group that the government chose to include. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 335 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-326) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781108493017 1108493017 |