Afro Mexicans
Afro-Mexican refers specifically to #Mexicans who have above-average levels of #WestAfrican #ancestry noticeable in their #phenotype.
As opposed to other #Spanish speaking countries in #LatinAmerica with visible #AfroLatino populations, the history of #Africans in #Mexico has been lesser known for a number of reasons. Included among these reasons were #Negrophobia, #intermarriage with #Indigenous Mexican groups, #racism in Mexico and other #LatinAmerican countries, and Mexico's tradition of defining itself as a #Mestizo country.
#Enslaved Africans were brought to Spanish America including Mexico, becoming an integral part of Mexican #society. #AfroMexicans engaged in a #variety of #economic #activities as slaves and as #free persons. Mexico never became a society based on #slavery, as happened in the Anglo-American #southern #colonies or #Caribbean #islands, where #plantations utilized #large numbers of #field #slaves.
#Mexico is one country that has denied having any ties to #Africa but as we have seen, people are speaking up about this #ancestry and the relations they have to Africa. #NuevaEspaña or #New #Spain which is now Mexico, there were slaves who were #transported through #ships from 1521 to 1810. Those from Africa #belonged mainly to groups coming from #Western #Sudan and ethnic #Bantu.
The origin of the slaves is known through various #documents such as #transcripts of sales. Originally the slaves came from #CapeVerde and #Guinea. Later slaves were also taken from #Angola.
To decide the #sex of the slaves that would be sent to the New World, calculations that included #physical #performance and #reproduction were performed. At first half of the slaves imported were #women and the other half #men, but it was later realized that men could work #longer without #fatigue and that they #yielded similar #results throughout the month, while women suffered from #pains and #diseases more easily. Later on, only one third of the total slaves were women.
Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán coined the term Afro-Mexican in 1945 in Mexico City, during the #foundational meeting of the Institute for African American Studies. But that doesn’t mean that a #color #consciousness didn’t exist in Mexico. Prior to that, there were a host of names for Afro-Mexicans such as “Casta,” “Chilango,” “Jarocho,” and “Boshito,” all terms that refer to the lack of blood purity of non-white people. That would explain why many people in Mexico do not identify themselves as Afro-Mexican today.
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I'm living proof of a mixed race person. I was born in the US, but my parents are Mexican. I have African genes in my DNA. My great grandmother was a mulata, but she was also mixed.
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This is and awesome video love the narration, but I was wondering if you think there's a possibility that back when the Caucasians mutation was popping up around in various places such as parts of Africa and south America that they started to create religious motives and understanding around why they appear without science or mental understanding because they were early human. I ask because they could have started the thing where Caucasians were spoiled and acted like they were not related also I think that people have seen someone as ugly or written of people who look like someone who has traumatized them and racism started that way.
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Great content but you left out some history afro Mexicans that said their forefathers came from West Africa before Columbus in the Spanish Conquest these Mexicans are brown skin with straight hair short n tall Aztecs Incas and Mayans speaking a Semitic West African language similar to the language is found in Ghana ewe land meaning Hebrew word in English translation
@timasuna1756
6 ай бұрын
No they didn't 😂 people in Mexico with afro descent know they were survivors from a slave ship wreck on Mexico's shore. Guess where they mostly reside this very day? Right where their ship crashed in Vera Cruz. Stop the Afrocentric fake histrionics, it's literal Native erasure.
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why do you make a distinction between mullato and mestizo. both mean mixed. If you are mullato, then you are mestizo. Mixed means mixed. Also, why do you say mexicans mixed with amerindians. mexicans are amerindians, i.e. indigenos. There are african, indigenos, spanish, french, ashkanazi jewish. Lastly, you should make a distinction between jews and ashkanazi jews. Not all jews are european. Millions are african jews and arab jews, etc... Not ashkanazi. Thanks so much for your wonderful videos.
@realpainediaz7473
9 ай бұрын
Mullato implies mixed with black, as it does almost everywhere the term in used.
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I prefer mestizo, than mulato. Since mulato is pejorative.
@lbec9487
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Since Mulatto means a person of African and European mix, it’s racist/colorist to treat that term as pejorative. It’s like being called “prieta” which only means dark skinned but where I’m from it’s a derogatory term. However- it’s not. Because having dark skin is not bad, just like having African ancestry is not bad.
@andujarpain2629
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@@lbec9487 As a person with an arab-jamaican mother and jamaican father, I am well aware of what is perjorative "in america" and what is not. Mestizo, Metis is not perjorative. Mullato is perjorative as it descends from its historical context, which is a donkey and mule mating, Metis, nor mestizo have that negative animal beast of burden connotation. As thinking, wise, people we can choose what we call ourselves. I choose metis or mestizo.
@timasuna1756
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Well you're all wrong, your viewing the words with an American anglo interpretation. Mulatto is very regularly used in Dominican without a negative connotation. Americans seem to think it's their job to tell them how to define the word. And Mestizo is a very specific mix of Native and Spanish only, just like Zambo is used for African and Native admix. Neither of these archaic labels are actually used as identities, people know what they mean but will vastly identify by nationality not a racial label. It's American millennials and zoomers who seem obsessed with these labels for tik tok and other social media clickbait.
@lbec9487
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@@timasuna1756Lol. No one has mentioned being American or a millennial or zoomer. Andujar pain mentioned knowing what is pejorative in America but it’s quite presumptive of you to assume either of us is American or millennial or younger. I, for one, am definitely not. Also, why don’t you check the dictionary definition of Mestizo? It does not always mean just Spanish and Native.
@timasuna1756
6 ай бұрын
@@lbec9487 That's the US academic definition, you can be full blooded native and be considered mestizo. They use it to mean a native person assimilating into modern society. That's the thing, there is the meaning (wrong in many cases in the US) that you are taught. Then incorrectly try applying it to Latin America. Millions of Latinos use mulatto or moreno 😅 then here comes an idiot outsider trying to tell these people what words they use actually mean.