AFRO-MEXICAN SPACES AND LEGACIES ON THE LOWER RIO GRANDE.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Starling, James M.
- Source
- Journal of South Texas. Spring2017, Vol. 30 Issue 2, p24-36. 13p.
- Subject
- *NATIVE Americans
*APACHE (North American people)
*HISTORY of race relations
*ETHNOLOGY
*INTERGROUP relations
*CROSS-cultural communication
*ETHNIC relations
- Language
- ISSN
- 1099-9310
The article focuses on the colonial history and post-colonial legacy of African-descended people in Starr and Zapata counties along the lower Rio Grande in Sothern Texas. Topics discussed include encounters in later race relations in South Texas' borderlands; complex milieu for peoples of African origin along the lower Rio Grande; and encounters between African Americans, Anglos and Mexicans that took place during the 1840s and 1850s.