{"id":421,"date":"2013-06-03T15:29:56","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T15:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/?p=421"},"modified":"2013-06-14T13:34:32","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T13:34:32","slug":"new-research-story-race-and-place-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/2013\/06\/03\/new-research-story-race-and-place-in-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"New Research Story: Race and Place in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/files\/2013\/06\/lewis-image1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-413\" title=\"lewis image1\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/files\/2013\/06\/lewis-image1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Until the early 18<sup>th<\/sup> century, Mexico and Peru had the highest number of African and African descent people in the Americas. Today, the coastal belt of Mexico\u2019s southern Pacific Coast \u00a0\u2013 the \u201cCosta Chica\u201d or \u201cthe small coast\u201d &#8212; contains many historically black communities. Residents descend in part from slaves and free persons Spaniards brought to the area in the late 16<sup>th<\/sup> century to work in what would become one of the most important cattle regions in Mexico. Because the Spanish Crown and the colonial state put in place limited protective measures to shield indigenous peoples from slavery and many forms of labour, and because colonial authorities banned them from riding horses without a permit, African descent people worked in both free and unfree capacities for Spaniards, in the process becoming expert cattle herders. As a result, the Costa Chica developed a \u2018cowboy\u2019 culture that survives today.\u00a0 <a title=\"Race and Place in Mexico\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/research-stories\/race-and-place-in-mexico\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until the early 18th century, Mexico and Peru had the highest number of African and African descent people in the Americas. Today, the coastal belt of Mexico\u2019s southern Pacific Coast \u00a0\u2013 the \u201cCosta Chica\u201d or \u201cthe small coast\u201d &#8212; contains many historically black communities. Residents descend in part from slaves and free persons Spaniards brought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93259,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[158094],"tags":[187345,65479,425267,341059,58539],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-stories","tag-ethnography","tag-mexico","tag-place","tag-race","tag-spanish"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Sp7t-6N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}