Local Color
Reckoning with Blackness in the Port City of Veracruz
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2025
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-41339-9 (ISBN)
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The Caribbean port city of Veracruz is many things. It is where the Spanish first settled and last left the colony that would go on to become Mexico. It is a destination boasting the “happiest Carnival in the world,” nightly live music, and public dancing. It is also where Blackness is an integral and celebrated part of local culture and history, but not of the individual self. In Local Color, anthropologist Karma F. Frierson follows Veracruzanos as they reckon with the Afro-Caribbean roots of their distinctive history, traditions, and culture. As residents learn to be more jarocho, or more local to Veracruz, Frierson examines how people both internalize and externalize the centrality of Blackness in their regional identity. Frierson provocatively asks readers to consider a manifestation of Mexican Blackness unconcerned with self-identification as Black in favor of the active pursuit and cultivation of a collective and regionalized Blackness.
The Caribbean port city of Veracruz is many things. It is where the Spanish first settled and last left the colony that would go on to become Mexico. It is a destination boasting the “happiest Carnival in the world,” nightly live music, and public dancing. It is also where Blackness is an integral and celebrated part of local culture and history, but not of the individual self. In Local Color, anthropologist Karma F. Frierson follows Veracruzanos as they reckon with the Afro-Caribbean roots of their distinctive history, traditions, and culture. As residents learn to be more jarocho, or more local to Veracruz, Frierson examines how people both internalize and externalize the centrality of Blackness in their regional identity. Frierson provocatively asks readers to consider a manifestation of Mexican Blackness unconcerned with self-identification as Black in favor of the active pursuit and cultivation of a collective and regionalized Blackness.
Karma F. Frierson is Assistant Professor of Black Studies at the University of Rochester.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue: A View from the Port
Introduction: Blackness a la Veracruzana
1. Veracruz and Its Jarocho
Interlude: Tenacious Roots
2. The Living Past
Interlude: Mother and Child
3. Practicing Innateness
Interlude: Day and Night
4. Affectations
Interlude: A Hand to Hold
5. Sanguine Blackness
Conclusion: The Jarocho and the Afro-Mexican
Epilogue: New Views in the Port
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 19.08.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 10 b-w illustrations, 1 map |
| Verlagsort | Berkerley |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-520-41339-3 / 0520413393 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-520-41339-9 / 9780520413399 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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