Afro-Mexican Women and The Black Movement through Life History

This article describes and analyzes the process of building Black-Afro Mexican political subjectivity through the life history of Black-Afro Mexican activist and intellectual Juliana Acevedo. This narration emerges from within a political process which began in 2012, in which Afro women built a space for gendered political enunciation regarding ethnicized identity at the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st Century. Acevedo is part of a tradition of engaged women intellectuals who delineate difference within and outside of the Afro-descendent movement. Her narration interrogates feminist discourse and questions the historical and political forms and the intersections of racialization, class, and gender within which intellectual and activist Black-Afro Mexican women have been represented.

Keywords:
Afro-descendants; Narratives; Feminism; Agency; Subjectivities