Scènes de vie : Afromexicains de la Costa Chica

The story that has been passed down among increasingly smaller generations of Afro-Mexicans in Costa Chica is that their ancestors arrived on a boat that sank off the Pacific coast.

But it was only recently that the community realized the mythical boat may have been from Africa, as opposed to the Caribbean.

Mexico’s independence drove Afro-Mexicans into exile and invisibility, as the African part of Mexican history was buried.

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