Introduction

Chapter 1: Mexican Blackness in Historical Perspective

     The Mexican Slave Trade
     Justifications for African Slavery and Indian Paternalism
     Demographic Notes on Colonial Afro-Mexicans
     Slave Resistance and Cimarrones
     The End of Slavery in Mexico

Chapter 2: Mexican Ideas on Race: Mestizofilia, Indigenismo and Blackness

     Blackness and Mestizaje
     The Rise of Mestizofilia and Indigenismo
     System of the Castas in New Spain
     Nineteenth Century Racism in Mexico: Mestizaje Not Yet Embraced
     Indigenismo and Mestizofilia: Two Opposing Viewpoints

Chapter 3: Race in The Costa Chica

     History of Blacks in the Costa Chica
     The Costa Chica: A Persistent All-But Forgotten Backwater
     The Afro-Mexicans of the Costa Chica
     A Note on Local Origin Narratives
     Collantes, Oaxaca: Daily Life in an Afro-Mexican Town
     Religion
     Education
     Collanteño Families
     The Mestizos: Whiteness in the Costa Chica
     A Word about Africanisms: Redondos and the Tono
     Features of Afro-Mexican Language
     Regional Nicknames
     Afro-Mexican Surnames
     Negro and Moreno
     El Negro Feo: Blackness and Beauty
     Afro-Mexicans’ Encounter with Indígenas and Indigenismo
     Afro-Mexicans and the Greater African Diaspora

Chapter 4: Blackness in Veracruz

     The Jarocho Discourse
     El Negro Yanga: A Singular Afro-Mexican Protagonist
     Toponyms in Veracruz
     The Afro-Cuban Connection
     Indígenismo in Veracruz
     Encountering Afro-Veracruzans

Chapter 5: Politics, Migration, and the Changing Nature of Blackness

     An Ethnic Politics of Blackness in Latin America
     State-Sponsored Afromestizo Projects: La Tercera Raíz
     The México Negro Movement
     The Fourth Encuentro: Collantes, Oaxaca
     “Me Voy Pa’l Norte” [Going North]: Afro-Mexican Migration

Prospects

Appendices
     Appendix 1: Afro-Mexican Communities in the Costa Chica
     Appendix 2: Regional Christian Names and Corresponding Nicknames
     Appendix 3: “El Negro de la Costa” by Alvaro Carrillo
     Appendix 4: Pinotepa Nacional and Collantes in the Archives

Works Cited