Strategy As Lived: mixed communities in the age of new nations.(Indian-Black Relations in Historical and Anthropological Perspective)

The relations between Native Americans and African Americans in Mexico and other parts of North America has been obscured by the lumping of different kinds of racial mixing into the simple category of mestizo, supposedly a simple mixture of white and Indian. The realities of blacks and mulattos in relation to Native Americans has not been recognized. A cultural distinction between soldiers and farmworkers, independent of race, can also be seen in the social patterns.

Mixed Communities in the Age of New Nations

In one neighborhood of Parras, in the province of Coahuila, there lived in 1820 ...

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