Local Color

Reckoning with Blackness in the Port City of Veracruz

Karma F. Frierson

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University of California Press
16 September 2025

History of the Americas; Ethnic studies; Black & Asian studies; Hispanic & Latino studies; Social & cultural anthropology

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The Caribbean port city of Veracruz is many things. It is where the Spanish first settled and last left the colony that would go on to become Mexico. It is a destination boasting the ""happiest Carnival in the world,"" nightly live music, and public dancing. It is also where Blackness is an integral and celebrated part of local culture and history, but not of the individual self. In Local Color, anthropologist Karma F. Frierson follows Veracruzanos as they reckon with the Afro-Caribbean roots of their distinctive history, traditions, and culture. As residents learn to be more jarocho, or more local to Veracruz, Frierson examines how people both internalize and externalize the centrality of Blackness in their regional identity. Frierson provocatively asks readers to consider a manifestation of Mexican Blackness unconcerned with self-identification as Black in favor of the active pursuit and cultivation of a collective and regionalized Blackness.

By: Karma F. Frierson
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9780520413399
ISBN 10: 0520413393
Pages: 210
Publication Date: 16 September 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Karma F. Frierson is Assistant Professor of Black Studies at the University of Rochester.