Abstract

OJEDA, JORGE VICTORIA. African - Afro-Caribbean in the construction and representation of the Yucatecan identity as part of the continental Caribbean. Notes of an unconscious claim. Hist. Caribe [online]. 2020, vol.15, n.37, pp.83-118.  Epub July 16, 2021. ISSN 0122-8803.  https://doi.org/10.15648/hc.37.2020.5.

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.

Keywords : negritude; invisibility; fiestas; Circum-Caribbean; Yucatan.

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