{"product_id":"afro-mexican-lives-in-the-long-nineteenth-century-9781009456012","title":"Afro-Mexican Lives in the Long Nineteenth Century","description":"As the first book-length examination of abolition and its legacies in Mexico, this collection reveals innovative social, cultural, political, and intellectual approaches to Afro-Mexican history. It complicates the long-standing belief that Afro-Mexicans were erased from the nation. The volume instead shows how they created their own archival legibility by continuing and modifying colonial-era forms of resistance, among other survival strategies. The chapters document the lives and choices of Afro-descended peoples, both enslaved and free, over the course of two centuries, culminating during the Mexican Revolution of 1910. Contributors examine how Afro-Mexicans who lived under Spanish rule took advantage of colonial structures to self-advocate and form communities. Beginning with the war for independence and continuing after the abolition of slavery and caste in the 1820s, Afro-descended citizens responded to and, at times, resisted the claims of racial disappearance to shape both local and national politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCohen, Theodore W.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Theodore W. Cohen is Associate Professor of Africana Studies and History at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. His book Finding Afro-Mexico: Race and Nation after the Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2020) won the Howard F. Cline Book Prize in Mexican History from the Latin American Studies Association.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVon Germeten, Nicole:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Nicole von Germeten is Professor of History at Oregon State University. Her many publications include Death in Old Mexico: The 1789 Dongo Murders and How They Shaped the History of a Nation (Cambridge University Press, 2023).","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52103789576466,"sku":"9781009456012","price":127.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d75aeaf7-8db1-45b1-ad24-3e5d77729964.jpg?v=1773157144","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/afro-mexican-lives-in-the-long-nineteenth-century-9781009456012","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}