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Afro-Mexicans want legal recognition in Mexico’s National Constitution

November 12, 2015

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Afro-Mexicans want legal recognition in Mexico’s National Constitution By Walter Thompson-Hernández Remezcla The myth of the Latin American racial democracy, scholars believe, began in Brazil following the abolishment of slavery in 1888, when government officials declared that high rates of racial mixing had officially absolved the nation of its racial problems. This thinking eventually transcended […]

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