11-19-2007
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Originally Posted by jimmyboi  TRUE but MEXCIANS dont consider themselves `white´ and they are NOT BLACK...
| Sorry to disappoint you but there are blacks in Mexico: Afro-Mexican. By 1650, more than 150,000 blacks and mulattoes lived in Mexico, a figure that actually surpassed Spanish immigration. In fact, blacks outnumbered Spaniards in Mexico until after 1810. The Afro-Mexican presence is not widely known. Yet Blacks in Mexico have a long history here, and in both the east coast, (Veracruz) and the west Coast (Costa Chica) there are thriving communities. In Bobby Vaughn's Black Mexico, we explore the Costa Chica.
With Roberto Rodriguez and Patrisia Gonzales' "African Roots Stretch Deep into Mexico", we explore the still thriving African legacy in Mexico, where Mexicans play African "hand pianos" and perform "the dance of the black people." Mexican "corridos" -- or song-stories -- tell of slave uprisings. And the marimbas of Mexico, as well as those of Central America and Ecuador, all have their origins in Africa.
ETHNIC DIVERSITY IN MEXICO - In Mexico Connect - The Site and the Magazine
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