Afro-Mexicans: we are not folklore

Hugo Arellanes was bothered by something every time anthropologists, photographers and filmmakers visited his native Costa Chica. For years he could not put in words what it was. Until he managed to see it from a distance, at the university. There he concludes:...

Being black in Paraguay

“At least you’re a fine black woman,” some people told Mayeli Villalba when she was a child. They told her with a certain sadness that she did not identify well where it came from. She only understood a little more when, years later, she met a group...

The Maroons and Their Fandango

The fandango is an ancient Spanish dance in wich castanets are used, and that arrived, just like enslaved people, to America. The maroon (cimarrón) is a rebellious soul that runs away from the control of “his masters” and decide to grow in liberty. From this...