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History & Literary Arts Building

This exhibit was born of a series of dialogues. The aim was not to promote "conversation" in predictable ways. Our deep conviction was that there was, already, a distinguished body of Latino poetry that merited a wider, more varied audience - including greater visibility in the arts community. This led us to conceive of this exhibit's genesis as a dialogue between the visual artist and a pre-existing text, rather than a collaborative between the artists and the poets themselves.

This groundbreaking exhibition highlights Mexico's "Third Root" and provides an important opportunity to revisit and embrace the African legacy in Mexico and the Americas. For nearly 500 years, the existence and contributions of the African descendants in Mexico have been overlooked. Almost a century after Africans arrived in Mexico in 1519, Yanga, an African leader, founded the first free African township in the Americas (January 6, 1609). Since then, Africans have continued to contribute their cultural, musical, and culinary traditions to Mexican society through the present day. This exhibition is filled with paintings, costumes, masks, musical instruments, and other examples of art and popular culture. Also included in this exhbition is a companion exhibition entitled Who Are We Now? Roots, Resistance, & Recognition that investigates the complex relationship between African-Americans and Mexicans in the United States.

History & Literary Arts Building

This exhibit was born of a series of dialogues. The aim was not to promote "conversation" in predictable ways. Our deep conviction was that there was, already, a distinguished body of Latino poetry that merited a wider, more varied audience - including greater visibility in the arts community. This led us to conceive of this exhibit's genesis as a dialogue between the visual artist and a pre-existing text, rather than a collaborative between the artists and the poets themselves.

This groundbreaking exhibition highlights Mexico's "Third Root" and provides an important opportunity to revisit and embrace the African legacy in Mexico and the Americas. For nearly 500 years, the existence and contributions of the African descendants in Mexico have been overlooked. Almost a century after Africans arrived in Mexico in 1519, Yanga, an African leader, founded the first free African township in the Americas (January 6, 1609). Since then, Africans have continued to contribute their cultural, musical, and culinary traditions to Mexican society through the present day. This exhibition is filled with paintings, costumes, masks, musical instruments, and other examples of art and popular culture. Also included in this exhbition is a companion exhibition entitled Who Are We Now? Roots, Resistance, & Recognition that investigates the complex relationship between African-Americans and Mexicans in the United States.

History & Literary Arts Building

This exhibit was born of a series of dialogues. The aim was not to promote "conversation" in predictable ways. Our deep conviction was that there was, already, a distinguished body of Latino poetry that merited a wider, more varied audience - including greater visibility in the arts community. This led us to conceive of this exhibit's genesis as a dialogue between the visual artist and a pre-existing text, rather than a collaborative between the artists and the poets themselves.

This groundbreaking exhibition highlights Mexico's "Third Root" and provides an important opportunity to revisit and embrace the African legacy in Mexico and the Americas. For nearly 500 years, the existence and contributions of the African descendants in Mexico have been overlooked. Almost a century after Africans arrived in Mexico in 1519, Yanga, an African leader, founded the first free African township in the Americas (January 6, 1609). Since then, Africans have continued to contribute their cultural, musical, and culinary traditions to Mexican society through the present day. This exhibition is filled with paintings, costumes, masks, musical instruments, and other examples of art and popular culture. Also included in this exhbition is a companion exhibition entitled Who Are We Now? Roots, Resistance, & Recognition that investigates the complex relationship between African-Americans and Mexicans in the United States.

History & Literary Arts Building

This exhibit was born of a series of dialogues. The aim was not to promote "conversation" in predictable ways. Our deep conviction was that there was, already, a distinguished body of Latino poetry that merited a wider, more varied audience - including greater visibility in the arts community. This led us to conceive of this exhibit's genesis as a dialogue between the visual artist and a pre-existing text, rather than a collaborative between the artists and the poets themselves.

This groundbreaking exhibition highlights Mexico's "Third Root" and provides an important opportunity to revisit and embrace the African legacy in Mexico and the Americas. For nearly 500 years, the existence and contributions of the African descendants in Mexico have been overlooked. Almost a century after Africans arrived in Mexico in 1519, Yanga, an African leader, founded the first free African township in the Americas (January 6, 1609). Since then, Africans have continued to contribute their cultural, musical, and culinary traditions to Mexican society through the present day. This exhibition is filled with paintings, costumes, masks, musical instruments, and other examples of art and popular culture. Also included in this exhbition is a companion exhibition entitled Who Are We Now? Roots, Resistance, & Recognition that investigates the complex relationship between African-Americans and Mexicans in the United States.

History & Literary Arts Building

This exhibit was born of a series of dialogues. The aim was not to promote "conversation" in predictable ways. Our deep conviction was that there was, already, a distinguished body of Latino poetry that merited a wider, more varied audience - including greater visibility in the arts community. This led us to conceive of this exhibit's genesis as a dialogue between the visual artist and a pre-existing text, rather than a collaborative between the artists and the poets themselves.

This groundbreaking exhibition highlights Mexico's "Third Root" and provides an important opportunity to revisit and embrace the African legacy in Mexico and the Americas. For nearly 500 years, the existence and contributions of the African descendants in Mexico have been overlooked. Almost a century after Africans arrived in Mexico in 1519, Yanga, an African leader, founded the first free African township in the Americas (January 6, 1609). Since then, Africans have continued to contribute their cultural, musical, and culinary traditions to Mexican society through the present day. This exhibition is filled with paintings, costumes, masks, musical instruments, and other examples of art and popular culture. Also included in this exhbition is a companion exhibition entitled Who Are We Now? Roots, Resistance, & Recognition that investigates the complex relationship between African-Americans and Mexicans in the United States.