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 | States in their name |
Jose Maria Morelos y Pavon
| Cities in their name |
Lazaro Cardenas
Juan Jose Codallos
Gordiano Guzman
Ricardo Flores Magon
Vicente Riva Palacio
Valerio Trujano
Gaspar Yanga
Emiliano Zapata
Luis Pinzon
| Notables among the descendants of the "dark slaves" from Asia who were legally declared "African." |
Francisco Mongoy
Isidoro Montesdeoca
Catarina de San Juan
| Notable Cultural Achievements |
Spanish prohibitions upon openly African, Indigenous or Asian cultural practices forced a cultural blending that disguised the origins, as in the "jarabe" dances that feature women twirling in costumes of beautiful Indigenous color patterns to African rhythms.
Recent research has studied the creative mix and found African imprint upon Mexican national culture in many areas, such as: MUSIC (musicologist Rolando Perez Fernandez details a claim in his study "La Musica Afromestiza de Mexico" that virtually all popular music in Mexico has been African influenced); SCULPTURE (the extensive use of masks in dance and spiritual worship has been shown to have strong African influence by antropologist Sagrario Cruz Carretero and others); CUISINE (a decidedly Afro-Caribbean flavor is found in the popular food and drink of the Mexican Atlantic Coast, notes antropologist Dora Carreaga Gutierrez in her Afro-Mexican cookbook); MAGIC and MEDICINE practices (At the villege level mystic rites and folk remedies have long had strong African influence argued antropologist Gonzalo Aguirre Beltran in a book on the subject); LANGUAGE (the list of African words that have become "Mexicanismos" includes the nation's distinctive f-verb "chingar" which came from Angola, according to recent research)
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