Soy Africano

The National Museum of Mexican Art has a wonderful exhibit that I'm so excited to see and I'm encouraging everyone else to see as well. This exhibit shines light on the little know history of Africans in Mexico. Though we all know that Africans traveled the world long before traveling as enslaved Africans, this exhibit starts with Africans coming in chains. Still, an exhibit to explore and learn from.

Exhibit Phases 

The African Presence in Mexico: From Yanga to the Present, tells the little known story of Afro-descendants in Mexico during the past 500 years, including the story of Yanga, an enslaved African who escaped to found the first free town in the Americas near Veracruz, Mexico in 1610...

Who Are We Now? Roots, Resistance, and Recognition

Roots >>> illustrates three of the oldest historical connections between Mexicans and African Americans in the U.S., beginning with the domestic slave trade...

Resistance>>> describes the ways in which the two groups have influenced each other's efforts to resist oppression and assimilation...

Recognition>>> focuses on the two groups' recognition of their shared history, the recognition of distinct notions of race in the US and Mexico...

This exhibited is being displayed around the world. Let us take time for the African Diaspora

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