Against Mestizaje

Articulations Towards a Black/Indigenous Sense of Place in Mexico

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ID7472022
AuthorsAshley Ngozi Agbasoga (Gallatin School of Individualized Study New York University New York NY USA, corresponding author)
Year2026
Volume58
Issue1
Publication date2026-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAntipode (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0066-4812 • E-ISSN: 1467-8330
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/anti.70104
OpenAlexW4417482539
LanguageEN
References cited33

In this paper, I sit with the different modes of relation that Black, Indigenous, and Black/Indigenous/Afro‐Indigenous women have to community, to each other, and to land and sea. In particular, I demonstrate the ways in which Black, Indigenous, and Black/Indigenous women contend, refuse, and negotiate racialised identifiers on their own terms, extending beyond Mexico's rubrics of inclusion and exclusion. I ask: How does one insist on existence, and do so on your and your community's own terms? What does it mean to be inseparable from the land and water that your community inhabits? I weave together Black and Indigenous feminist thought, with an analysis of language use, to unsettle hegemonic mestizo understandings of place, racial and state formation in the land known as Mexico and beyond

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