In Black and Brown: Intellectuals, Blackness, and Inter-Americanism in Mexico after 1910

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dc.contributor.advisorVaughan, Mary Kayen_US
dc.contributor.authorCohen, Theodoreen_US
dc.contributor.departmentHistoryen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-06-28T06:17:31Z
dc.date.available2013-06-28T06:17:31Z
dc.date.issued2013en_US
dc.description.abstract"In Black and Brown" examines how blackness and Africanness became constituent elements of Mexican culture after the Revolution of 1910. In refuting the common claim that black cultures and identities were erased or ignored in the post-revolutionary era, it argues that anthropologists, historians, (ethno)musicologists, and local intellectuals integrated black and, after 1940, African-descended peoples and cultures into a democratic concept of national identity. Although multiple historical actors contributed to this nationalist project, three intellectuals--composer and ethnomusicologist Gerónimo Baqueiro Foster (1898-1967), anthropologist Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán (1908-1996), and city of Veracruz poet Francisco Rivera (1908-1994)--most coherently identified Africanness in Mexican history and culture. As these state and local intellectuals read ethnographic texts about African cultural retentions throughout the Western Hemisphere, they situated these cultural practices in specific Mexican communities and regional spaces. By tracing the inter-American networks that shaped these identities, "In Black and Brown" asserts that the classification of blackness and Africanness as Mexican was in conversation with the refashioning of blackness, Africanness, and indigeneity across the Americas and was part of the construction of the Western Hemisphere as a historical, cultural, and racial entity. More broadly, it questions the commonplace assumption that certain nations of the Americas are part of the African Diaspora while others are defined as indigenous.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/14054
dc.subject.pqcontrolledLatin American historyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledAfrican American studiesen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledLatin American studiesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAfrican Diasporaen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAnthropologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledEthnomusicologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledInter-Americanismen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMexicoen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledNation Formationen_US
dc.titleIn Black and Brown: Intellectuals, Blackness, and Inter-Americanism in Mexico after 1910en_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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