UID:
edocfu_9959677600402883
Format:
1 online resource (390 p.)
ISBN:
1-280-68732-0
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9786613664266
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0-8223-9477-4
Series Statement:
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Content:
Chocolate and Corn Flour explores the history and contemporary culture of African descended Mexicans in the agricultural village of San Nicolás on the southern Pacific Coast of Guerrero (the Costa Chica). This ethnography emphasizes that local history is crucial to understanding identity and explores how racial categories are complicated by globalization and the influence of outsiders.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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The lay of the land -- Identity in discourse : the "race" has been lost -- Identity in performance -- Africa in Mexico, an intellectual history -- Culture work : so much money -- Being from here -- A family divided? : centripetal and centrifugal forces -- Transnationalism, place and the mundane.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-5121-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-5132-3
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780822394778
