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afro mexicans celebrate juneteenth

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Just across the border, this Mexican community also celebrates Juneteenth

The “Southern Underground Railroad” helped formerly enslaved people reach freedom in northern Mexico. One village here has observed Juneteenth or “Dia de los Negros” for 150 years

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California Love: Jacob Dodson, John Grider and Other Black Members of the Bear Flag Party

California Love: Jacob Dodson, John Grider and Other Black Members of the Bear Flag Party

A very long time ago, people from all over the world including Africa, Asia and Europe left their homes to sail across the Earth’s oceans and see what all existed beyond. They reached lands of which they’d had no prior knowledge and met people who were strangers. The explorers discovered that the strangers possessed (or had access to) really good, pretty and precious things that the explorers…

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Photography by Mara Sanchez Renero

From the series “The Cimmarón and the Fandango.”  “The title refers to the escaped slaves and a dance –the series is Ms. Sanchez Renero’s interpretation of her conversations and encounters with the Afro-Mexicans in various communities in the Costa Chica region of Guerrero and Oaxaca, Mexico.”-David Gonzales of the New York Times

“As you go on the roads you see women doing something we had identified with Africa, and I wanted to make that link. The woman surrounded by fire, the symbolism, it has elements of spirituality. I also blindfolded her eyes, because women are the great carriers of culture and educate their children. But there is also a lack of interest in maintaining it.” -Renero

Afro-Mexicans date back to the colonial era when the Spanish brought over enslaved workers from Portugal, a trade that continued until the mid-18th century. A step toward lifting that invisibility came in 2015 when the government recognized Afro-Mexican as a census category, estimating that a little under 1.4 million people identified themselves as such.

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Afromexicans: The invisible people of Mexico

The Mexican state refuses to acknowledge cultural contributions of Afromexicans in the construction of its national identity.

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Deconstructing Cinco De Mayo with 5 Afro-Latino Facts

Deconstructing Cinco De Mayo with 5 Afro-Latino Facts cinco de mayo is a celebration of the mexican armys victory over the french empire, but afro mexicans are still invisible despite their history & influence

Credited To Britni Danielle

Despite its popularity here in the U.S., Cinco de Mayo isn’t Mexican Independence Day (that’s September 16). Instead, the date marks Mexico’s victory over the French during the of the Battle of Puebla in 1862. Unfortunately, many (including tons of Black folks) have reduced Cinco de Mayo to drinking tequila, attending a “fiesta,” or mimicking Mexican culture, but…

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Africans in Mexico 🇲🇽 showing their pride