Chocolate and Corn Flour: History, Race, and Place in the Making of Black Mexico

Chocolate and Corn Flour: History, Race, and Place in the Making of Black Mexico

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Author/Contributor(s): Lewis, Laura a
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date: 05/14/2012
Binding: Paperback
Condition: NEW
Chocolate and Corn Flour explores the history and contemporary culture of African descended Mexicans in the agricultural village of San Nicolás on the southern Pacific Coast of Guerrero (the Costa Chica). This ethnography emphasizes that local history is crucial to understanding identity and explores how racial categories are complicated by globalization and the influence of outsiders.