Blackness in Mexico: Afro-Mexican Recognition and the Production of Citizenship in the Costa Chica

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 mod...