8.3K views · 74 reactions | PT. 2 — ✊ Afro-Mexicans: A History...

🇲🇽✊🏾 Most Afro-Mexicans Live in the Costa Chica & Veracruz ✊🏾🇲🇽 In places like the Costa Chica of Guerrero & Oaxaca and Veracruz, African and Indigenous cultures came together to create something unique and powerful. 🥁 Instruments — African drums and rhythms fused with Indigenous instruments like flutes and marimbas, creating new sounds that defined regional music. 💃🏾 Dances — African movement traditions blended with Indigenous ceremonial dances, giving rise to celebrations like the Dan

PT. 1 — 🇲🇽✊🏾 Afro-Mexicans: A History Erased, A People Reclaimed ✊🏾🇲🇽 Did you know that colonial Mexico received more enslaved Africans than the United States? For centuries, their descendants were erased from the national story, hidden behind the idea of a “mestizo” identity (Spanish Indigenous only). But history cannot be silenced forever. In 2015, Mexicans could finally identify as Afro-descendant on a government survey for the first time. And by the 2020 Census, more than 2.5 million M