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Slavery, Race, and Whiteness in Mexico

By Rachel Laudan September 8, 2015 Globalization Then and Now, Mexican Food 1 Comment

Many readers are interested in Afro-Mexicans, so although this post is not directly about food, I’m going ahead anyway. In the eighteenth century, artists in Mexico (and to a lesser…

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African Traces in Central Mexico

By Rachel Laudan October 12, 2014 Food History, Globalization Then and Now, Mexican Food 32 Comments
African Traces in Central Mexico

  About a hundred years ago Romualdo GarcĂ­a was the photographer of choice in Guanajuato [GWAN-A-WHA-TOE], a wealthy mining town on the high central plateau of Mexico. As these images…

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