Ben Vinson

Ben Vinson III is professor of history and Director of the Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Bearing Arms for His Majesty: The Free-Colored Militia in Colonial Mexico, Flight: The Story of Virgil Richardson, A Tuskegee Airman in Mexico, and coauthor of African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Black Mexico

Race and Society from Colonial to Modern Times

University of New Mexico Press

This edited volume compiles the most recent research on a pivotal topic in Latin American history--Afro-Mexican experiences from pre-conquest to the modern period.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Afro-Mexico

Dancing between Myth and Reality

By Anita Gonzalez; By (photographer) George O. Jackson and José Manuel Pellicer; Introduction by Ben Vinson
University of Texas Press

This study of African-based dance in Mexico explores the influence of African people and their cultural productions on Mexican society, showing how dance can embody social histories and relationships.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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