Abstract

BALLESTEROS PAEZ, María Dolores. Vicente Guerrero: insurgente, militar y presidente afromexicano. Cuicuilco [online]. 2011, vol.18, n.51, pp.23-41. ISSN 0185-1659.

The history of the population of African ancestry in Mexico has been built through the official, ecclesiastic and notarial archives, studying references to their lives in the newspapers of the day or analyzing how they were represented on the writings and art works of the time. Precisely, these viewpoints of intellectuals like Carlos María de Bustamante and artists such as Primitivo Miranda or Anacleto Escutia are the ones to be studied in this essay. The protagonist of these representations would be Vicente Guerrero, Afromexican rebel, military and politician. In these portraits the African origin of Guerrero is used as an insult or as physical flaws which had to be "whitened" to allow his complete acceptance in the political elite. These representations show a society which wanted to ignore the racial variety of Independent Mexico in order to portrait a false homogeneity.

Keywords : Representation; population of African ancestry; Vicente Guerrero; images; discrimination.

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