Publisher's Synopsis
Regarding Afro-descendants in Mexico, they are not even mentioned as part of the cultural and social component of Mexicans; for many we only have two roots: the Spanish and the indigenous, the black root goes unnoticed, institutionally it does not exist, it has been erased. They have been denied recognition of their contribution to the construction of the Mexican nation, and not only that, they have been tried to hide them, to minimize them, to whiten them. To struggle along the path of concealment, of discrimination, of invisibilization for our Afro-Mexican population has been extremely ominous, however, clinging to the Afro identity has allowed them to recover, to some extent, what they have been denied: self-identification, whether as brown, black or Afro-Mexican.
