AFRO-MEXICANS PB DISCOURSE OF RACE AND IDENTITY IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA Migration Studies to intellectual flirtations with the

to intellectual flirtations with the mythic and the mystical

to help his family

In this scintillating combination of critical race theory

Paperback : 259 pages

Grace Lee Boggs

AFRO-MEXICANS PB DISCOURSE OF RACE AND IDENTITY IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA Migration Studies to intellectual flirtations with theThis book is about a little known branch of the African DiasporaAfro Mexicans. It discusses their conditions of arrival and establishment in Mexico within the context of Spanish colonialism, and the race based socio economic hierarchy known as sistema de castas which provided a basis for the contemporary socioracial terms that are the focus of the main study: indio, blanco, negro and moreno. Today, these terms are used ubiquitously in variable ways as