Afro-Mexicans and Winston-Salem Photo Gallery

Posted in Arts, Media Archive, United States on 2013-01-13 18:33Z by Steven

Afro-Mexicans and Winston-Salem Photo Gallery

Winston-Salem Journal
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
November 2007

Ted Richardson, Photographer

Irma Gonzales Alvarado prays before a shrine to the Virgin of Guadalupe at her Winston-Salem home. She invited several neighbors to her home on the last night of La Cuarentena, a 40-night observance of the Virgin leading up to Dec. 12th, the day an apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe appeared to Juan Diego.

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Blacks may be second class, but they can’t make them leave: Mexican racial formation and immigrant status in Winston-Salem

Posted in Latino Studies, Social Science, United States on 2012-12-30 03:31Z by Steven

Blacks may be second class, but they can’t make them leave: Mexican racial formation and immigrant status in Winston-Salem

Latino Studies
Volume 10, Issue 1 (Spring/Summer 2012)
pages 60-80
DOI: 10.1057/lst.2012.7

Jennifer A. Jones, SBS Diversity Post Doctoral Fellow
Ohio State University, Columbus

In this article, I investigate how race is produced by looking at the reception experiences of Afro and Mestizo Mexican migrants to the new South. Despite the fact that Afro and Mestizo Mexicans are both phenotypically and culturally distinct from one another, they assert a shared racial identity as minorities and as Latinos. On the basis of ethnographic field work in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, I argue that their perceived similarities with African Americans and pervasive discrimination owing to status drives Afro-Mexicans to assert a race-based Latino identity that is shaped by their understanding of African American experiences.

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