His talk focuses on Guerrero between the 1930s and 1960s and the coconut and sesame producing ejidos that cultivated the biochemical fuel for the Mexican Miracle. His talk tries to answer the question: did the soap industry benefit oilseed farmers in Mexico?
Javier Puente, associate professor of Latin American and Latino/a Studies at Smith College, will give a talk on his recent book on Peru at 4:30 p.m. Thursday in the Student Success Center, room 349.
Afro-Mexicans finally got the recognition they were striving for years on the Mexican census in 2020. This marks the first time the country is counting its Afro-Mexican population, which provides official recognition for the people who were often overlooked in the Mexican cultural picture.
The Afro-Mexican population has long fought for recognition in a mestizo country, where lighter skin color is often shown in social advancement and higher incomes, according to The Guardian report.
This year s census is being collected throughout March. Meanwhile, a 2015 survey from Mexico s statistics institute estimated the Afro-Mexican population at 1.3 million.
Observers are seeing the census to put together a total of around two million, mostly in Guerrero, Oaxaca, and Veracruz states.