Afroméxico:

Narraciones contemporáneas sobre esclavitud y mestizaje entre activistas negros-afromexicanos de la Costa Chica, Oaxaca

Abstract

Different narratives of origin and ancestrality of activists of the movement for the recognition of the black-Afro-Mexican population in Costa Chica are exposed. Based on the field work carried out in political meetings as well as interviews with activists in the region, I analyze the political uses of the past and the construction of memory among the militants, based on a critique of the construction of public history about Afro-descendant in Mexico. The activists have 30 years building a political subjectivity that is based on the uses of the past, as well as on the invention of differentiated traditions of the indigenous peoples, for which the narrations of slavery, miscegenation as well as imaginary about Africa are fundamental for this subjectivity. I conclude by analyzing academic narratives of the history and anthropology of this population are present in the constitution of political discourses and have been resignified and rearticulated.