African - Afro-Caribbean in the construction and representation of the Yucatecan identity as part of the continental Caribbean. Notes of an unconscious claim

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15648/hc.37.2020.5

Keywords:

negritude, invisibility, fiestas, Circum-Caribbean, Yucatan

Abstract

In this article the author addresses the African-Afro-Caribbean absence in the construction of a socio-cultural Yucatecan identity today. The black population and its castes, although numerous during the colonial period in the Yucatan Peninsula, were made invisible by the rest of the society, thus preventing their posterior recognition, in the process of a regional identity construction. In spite of this, in some peninsular towns during Carnival and  the Feast of Corpus Christi, there are elements that appear unconsciously and evoke the past presence of that group. The study of these elements in the context of a Circum-Caribbean, which includes the islands and mainlands, drives, on the one hand, to rethink the connotation of those Afro-Caribbean cultural elements, and on the other, to situate the Yucatan within the Caribbean environment, even though in a pendular and intermittent  way.

Author Biography

Jorge Victoria Ojeda, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán

Afiliado institucionalmente a la Unidad de Ciencias Sociales del Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de la Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán (México). Correo electrónico: jorge.victoria@correo.uady.mx/jorgevictoria40@hotmail.com.  El autor es Doctor en Antropología por la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México-UNAM (México) y Doctor en Historia por la Universitat Jaume I, Castellón (España).  Forma parte del Grupo de Evaluadores Acreditados Nacionales del Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología – CONACYT (México).  Recientemente ha publicado, entre otros: “Historias superpuestas en un solar meridiano, siglos XVI al XX”, Signos Históricos, Vol. 21 No. 41 (2019) y en coautoría “Cómo se concibe la xa’anil naj (casa de huano) en Tesoco, Yucatán, México” Revista Gremium Vol. 5 No. 10 (5) (2018). Entre sus temas de interés se encuentran Población africana y afrodescendiente, cultura maya, fortificaciones y piratería, contrabando y redes sociales.

How to Cite

Victoria Ojeda, J. (2019). African - Afro-Caribbean in the construction and representation of the Yucatecan identity as part of the continental Caribbean. Notes of an unconscious claim. Historia Caribe, 15(37), 83–118. https://doi.org/10.15648/hc.37.2020.5

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2019-11-25

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