Afro-Mexico

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This course explores Mexico's history through the perspective of African Mexican communities. Our review of a sample of the scholarship in the field will enable us to identify and comprehend the multiple roles played by members of the African diasporas in the nation's political, economic and socio-cultural development as well as in the transnational communities of which Afro-Mexicans are members Race, gender, and class will guide us in reading, discussing, and constructing questions on an often neglected aspect of history. Keywords: Black, Latin America, Diaspora.