Afro-Mexicans

Afro-Mexicans are people who are from the country of Mexico and who have ancestors who are African. As of 2020, Mexicans of Sub-Saharan African ancestry form 2.04% of the country's population.

Afro-Mexicans Media

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  Esclavos desembarcados en México por país de 1450 a 1866

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  Monument to Gaspar Yanga, founder of the first free town of escaped slaves in North America. The settlement is now known as Yanga, Veracruz.

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  Parts of the fort complex at San Juan de Ulúa were built by enslaved West Africans and indigenous Mexicans. In 2017, the fort and the town of Yanga were declared "Sites of Memory" by INAH and UNESCO as part of The Slave Route Project.

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  Spanish conquistadors led by Hernán Cortés. The Spaniards are accompanied by native porters, Malinche and a black man who may be Juan Garrido. Codex Azcatitlan.

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  Casta painting of a Spaniard, a Negra and a Mulatto. José de Alcíbar. 18th c.

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  Artist Ramiro Victor Paz Jimenez demonstrating work at the Museo de las Culturas Afromestizas in Cuajinicuilapa, Guerrero

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  The parish church of Santa María la Redonda, which was associated with one of the fourteen known confraternities in Mexico City. Called the Coronación de Cristo y San Benito de Palermo, the confraternity later met at the Convent of San Francisco.

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  Español (Spaniard) + Negra (black women), Mulata. Miguel Cabrera. Mexico 1763

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  Mexican-American bassist Abraham Laboriel

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  Afromestiza girls in Punta Maldonado, Cuajinicuilapa, Guerrero.