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black mexico race and society from colonial to modern times
p the essays in this collection build upon a series of conversations and papers that resulted from new directions in north american scholarship on afro mexico a symposium conducted at pennsylvania state university in 2004 . the issues addressed include contested historiography social and economic contributions of afro mexicans social construction of race and ethnic identity forms of agency and resistance and contemporary inquiry into ethnographic work on afro mexican communities . comprised of a core set of chapters that examine the colonial period and a shorter epilogue addressing the modern era this volume allows the reader to explore ideas of racial representation from the sixteenth century into the twenty first .