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<p>In this article, I investigate how racial meanings are constructed by looking at the ways in which Afro-Mexican immigrants make sense of their racial identity and experiences in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Despite Afro-Mexicans not valorizing whiteness and demeaning Blackness as a strategy for social integration into the United States, they do not assert a shared <i>social</i> and <i>cultural</i> affiliation with Black Americans. Drawing on my ethnographic research in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, I argue that the precarity of illegality and experiences of vibrant anti-Mexican discrimination in the United States create a sense of <i>racial ambivalence</i> among Afro-Mexican immigrants that takes the form of a simultaneous movement toward and away from Blackness.</p>

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Race, nation, and migration: An analysis of black racial identification among Afro-Mexicans in Winston-Salem, North Carolina

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    2025年5月7日

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  • Roberto Rincon

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In this article, I investigate how racial meanings are constructed by looking at the ways in which Afro-Mexican immigrants make sense of their racial identity and experiences in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Despite Afro-Mexicans not valorizing whiteness and demeaning Blackness as a strategy for social integration into the United States, they do not assert a shared social and cultural affiliation with Black Americans. Drawing on my ethnographic research in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, I argue that the precarity of illegality and experiences of vibrant anti-Mexican discrimination in the United States create a sense of racial ambivalence among Afro-Mexican immigrants that takes the form of a simultaneous movement toward and away from Blackness.