Re: [Marxism] Black Mexicans

[nada <dwaltersMIA@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for that, it's fascinating. When I lived in Kansas City in 1977, 
there was a Black folksinger whose name I've long since forgot, who used 
to sing at the Wobbly influenced "Fool Killer" theater who lived in Vera 
Cruz and brought back Afro-Mexican folks songs from the region.

The real big region for Afro-Mexicans during the real developing years 
of Mexico as a colony of Spain as not Vera Cruz but Monterrey. Many of 
the Africans and their decedents worked in the sugar-cane fields of the 
region. It has a big black population to this day.

I suspect the intermarriage, and thus 'dilution' of Afro-Mexicans 
population into the larger Mestizo one, was the result of non-racialism 
of the various poor classes in Mexico, influenced much by the 
anti-slavery stance of the Church at the base, in Northern Mexico. 
Simply a fascinating ethnic history.

David

________________________________________________
YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message.
Send list submissions to: Marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Set your options at: 
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40archives.econ.utah.edu