BORDERLANDS
DISMANTLING MESTIZAJE
R. Alcaraz-Ochoa, J. Gutierrez, A. Pelaez, D. Alemu . “9 Critical Points on Anti-Blackness, Immigration and Why Non-Black Latinxs Must Shut It Down Too.” Portside. August 12, 2016.
Bogado, Aura. “A Matter of Death and death”: Confronting anti-black Racism among Latinos.”Salon. May 20, 2014.
Deans-Smith, Susan and Ilona Katzew, editors. “The Alchemy of Race in Mexican America.” Race and Classification: The Case of Mexican America. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009.
Gómez, Laura E. Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race. New York: New York University Press, 2018.
Horne, Gerald. Black and Brown: African-Americans and the Mexican Revolution, 1919-1920. New York: NYU Press, 2005.
Menchaca, Martha. Recovering History, Constructing Race: The Indian, Black, and White Roots of Mexican Americans. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002.
Nelson, Timothy E. and Herbert G. II Ruffin. Blackdom, New Mexico: The Significance of the Afro-Frontier, 1900–1930. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2023.
Nichola, James David. “The Line of Liberty: Runaway Slaves and Fugitive Peons in the Texas-Mexico Borderlands.” Western Historical Quarterly, vol. 44, no. 4, 2013, pp. 413-433.
Pérez-Torres, Rafael. Mestizaje: Critical Uses of Race in Chicano Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
Saldívar, Emiko, Erika Arenas, and Cecile Binmoelle. “Unpacking the “Fluidity” of Mestizaje: How Anti Indigenous and Anti-Black Racism Determine Social Relations and Economic Destinations of Mestizos.” Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol 47, no. 11, 2024, pp. 2368-2387.
Sue, Christina A. “Is Mexico Beyond Mestizaje? Blackness, Race Mixture, and Discrimination.” Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 2011, pp. 217-237.
—. Land of the Cosmic Race: Race Mixture, Racism, and Blackness in Mexico. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Sweet, Elizabeth L. “Anti-Blackness/Nativeness and Erasure in Mexico: Black Feminist Geographies and Latin American Decolonial Dialogues for US Urban Planning.” Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City, vol. 2, no. 1, 2024, pp. 78-92.
TRANSNATIONAL BLACKNESS IN GREATER AFRO-MEXICO
Lewis, Laura A. “That Little Mexican Part of Me: Race, Place, and Transnationalism Among US African-Descent Mexicans.” Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 43, no. 6, 2020, pp. 995-1012.
Rodríguez-Santiago, Antonio. “From La Costa Chica to Pasadena: Transnational Racial Politics of Afro-Mexicans.” 2018. Master’s Theses, no. 1150, University of San Francisco.
Romo, Rebecca. “Between Black and Brown: Blaxican (Black-Mexican) Multiracial Identity in California.” Journal of Black Studies, vol. 42, no. 3, 2011, pp. 402-426.
—. “You’re Not Black or Mexican Enough!: Policing Racial/Ethnic Authenticity among Blaxicans in the United States.” Red and Yellow, Black and Brown: Decentering Whiteness in Mixed Race Studies, 2017, pp. 127-144.
Romo, Rebecca, G. Reginald Daniel, and Jo Sterphone. Between Black and Brown: Blaxicans and Multiraciality in Comparative Historical Perspective. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2024.
Vaughn, Bobby and Ben Vinson III. “Unfinished Migrations: From the Mexican South to the American South.” Beyond Slavery: The Multilayered Legacy of Africans in Latin America and the Caribbean, ed. by Darién J. Davis. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007.