Acknowledgments  ix

Introduction  1

1. The Lay of the Land  15

2. Identity in Discourse: The "Race" Has Been Lost  55

3. Identity in Performance  85

4. Africa in Mexico: An Intellectual History  119

5. Culture Work: So Much Money  155

6. Being from Here  189

7. A Family Divided? Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces  231

8. Transnationalism, Place, and the Mundane  265

Conclusion. What's in a Name?  305

Notes  323

Bibliography  341

Index  363

“Chocolate and Corn Flour is an insightful and remarkable study of color and race, with all its subtleties and implications, by a Professor of Anthropology that has obviously conducted many years of research on the subject. It is a book that I highly recommend.”—Dennis Moore, EurWeb.com

“Geographers will find in this work a good balance between careful case study and broader literatures about race, migration, sexuality, gender relations, globalization, and material consumption that characterize a fascinating group of Mexicans.”—Joseph L. Scarpaci, Journal of Latin American Geography

“Chocolate and Corn Flour should inspire future work on racial identity and inclusion in Mexico and elsewhere and expand the limited knowledge base of ethnological work in the field.”— Nnenna M. Ozobia, Americas Quarterly

“Chocolate and Corn Flour offers a compelling study of the moreno community in San Nicolás.”—Daniel Astorga Poblete, Itinerario

“Chocolate and Corn Flour is an insightful and remarkable study of color and race, with all its subtleties and implications, by a Professor of Anthropology that has obviously conducted many years of research on the subject. It is a book that I highly recommend.”—Dennis Moore, EurWeb.com

“Geographers will find in this work a good balance between careful case study and broader literatures about race, migration, sexuality, gender relations, globalization, and material consumption that characterize a fascinating group of Mexicans.”—Joseph L. Scarpaci, Journal of Latin American Geography

“Chocolate and Corn Flour should inspire future work on racial identity and inclusion in Mexico and elsewhere and expand the limited knowledge base of ethnological work in the field.”— Nnenna M. Ozobia, Americas Quarterly

“Chocolate and Corn Flour offers a compelling study of the moreno community in San Nicolás.”—Daniel Astorga Poblete, Itinerario

"The kind of great ethnography much needed in research on Latin American blackness: Laura A. Lewis puts a crimp in recent multiculturalist constructions of Afromexican 'blackness'—but also in Mexican mestizo nationalism—by revealing local meanings attached to being moreno as a complex historical mixture of blackness and indigenousness."—Peter Wade, author of Race and Sex in Latin America

"In the 1940s, when Mexican anthropologist Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán first brought Afromexicans into academic and public discussion, African presence in Mexico had been under erasure for so long that Mexican national identity had elided Africa altogether. Today, Mexico’s 'Third Root' has gained national and international recognition. This process has gone hand in glove with a new politics of identity. Laura A. Lewis's ethnohistorical study of race probes the local politics of autochthony, nationality, and citizenship in the Pacific heartland of Afromexico."—Claudio Lomnitz, author of Death and the Idea of Mexico

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