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• ISBN 10: 1438463596
• ISBN 13: 9781438463599
• Author: B Christine Arce

Honorable Mention, 2018 Elli Kongas-Maranda Professional Award presented by the Women’s Studies Section of the American Folklore Society Winner of the 2018 Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize presented by the Modern Language Association Winner of the 2016 Victoria Urbano Critical Monograph Book Prize presented by the International Association of Hispanic Feminine Literature and Culture México’s Nobodies examines two key figures in Mexican history that have remained anonymous despite their proliferation in the arts: the soldadera and the figure of the mulata. B. Christine Arce unravels the stunning paradox evident in the simultaneous erasure (in official circles) and ongoing fascination (in the popular imagination) with the nameless people who both define and fall outside of traditional norms of national identity. The book traces the legacy of these extraordinary figures in popular histories and legends, the Inquisition, ballads such as “La Adelita” and “La Cucaracha,” iconic performers like Toña la Negra, and musical genres such as the son jarocho and danzón. This study is the first of its kind to draw attention to art’s crucial role in bearing witness to the rich heritage of blacks and women in contemporary México.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1 Soldaderas and the Making of Revolutionary Spaces

Y se les fue el tren …

Revolutionary Practices on the Road

Women and the Revolution—A Brief Herstory

¿Dónde están las mujeres decentes?

Arriving or About to Leave?

Chapter 2 The Many Faces of the Soldadera and the Adelita Complex

Traveling Tropes

The Adelita Complex

“La Cucaracha” and the Other Animals of the Revolution

La Pintada Unmasked

Indigenous Scavengers Meet Armed Street Dogs

Las Guadalupanas: In the Custom of Her Sex and Country

Chapter 3 Beyond the “Custom of Her Sex and Country”

Revolutionary Womanhood: Turning Away from Adelita

Jesusa: “Tan contenta volando en las tripas de los zopilotes”

La niña Nellie y sus muertos

Revolutionary Mulatez

Conclusion: Adelita’s Legacy

Part Two: The Blacks in the Closet

Chapter 4 Black Magic and the Inquisition: The Legend of La Mulata de Córdoba and the Case of Antonia de Soto

Blacks in México and the Fashioning of a Creole Consciousness

Mesmerism and mulatez: The Legend of La Mulata de Córdoba

The Magical Adventures of Antonia de Soto

Plural-World Dwelling in the Backlands of the Northern Frontier

“Black” Magic and the White Devil

Algo De Simple

Chapter 5 “Dios pinta como quiere”: Blackness and Redress in Mexican Golden Age Film

Exceptional Blackness: La negra Angustias

Angustias the Amazon: The Mulata as Excess

Seeing is Believing: Appropriating Blackness

¿Y los angelitos negros?

De colores: Performing Redress

Unknown Origins

Chapter 6 The Music of the Afro-Mexican Universe and the Dialectics of Son

The Permutations of Son in México

“El son tiene nombre y apellido: Veracruz, México”

African Origins of Son Jarocho

Playing the Son “a la antigüita”: La Negra Graciana Silva

The Explosion of Cuban Music in the Port and the “mulatización de la gente pudiente”: Danzón, Son, and Carnaval

“Veracruz, por fortuna, es y seguirá siendo Caribe”: Celebrating México’s Third Root

Performing Blackness: The Grand Figure of Toña la Negra

“La sensación jarocha”

Caribbean as Foreign

Caribbean as Proper

Racialization of Sound and Voice

Son como son

“Pero que bonito y sabroso”: The Sounds of Orphanhood

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