PRESS RELEASE
Questioning ethnicity, nation, and continental identity has been an objective of African by Legacy, Mexican by Birth since its inception in 2002. Now the history of shared success at self-liberation is told through the narrative and portraiture centered catalogue, African by Legacy, Mexican by Birth.
The first color example of its kind the exhibition catalog for African by Legacy, Mexican by Birth includes essays by cultural figures from the Afro Latino community and an exclusive interview with long time organizer on behalf of Mexico's African descendants, Padre Glyn Jermott. The book provides both newcomers and veterans to the subject a sense of contemporary Afro-descendant consciousness within Mexico. The narrative thread of a common, pan American history shapes changing notions as to what comprises our global community.
Over the past 5 years, photographer/filmmaker Ayana Vellissia Jackson and writer/filmmaker Marco Villalobos have internationally toured multimedia work focusing on Afro descendant participation in the forming of a democratic western hemisphere. Their continued efforts encourage honest dialogue regarding the pluri-ethnicity at the heart of our Americas
Release date: 10.01.2007