P'urhépecha (Tarascan People) & Black In Latin America Review- Part 1

So the idea of people with Black African and Indigenous American Ancestry is conceivable in Latin American than in the U.S? Really?

Per Wikipedia:

Zambo is a Spanish term (the Portuguese term is cafuzo) used in the Spanish Empire and occasionally today to identify individuals in the Americas who are of mixed African and Amerindian ancestry (the analogous English term, considered a slur, is sambo).

Officially, zambos represent small minorities in the northwestern South American countries of Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador. A small but noticeable number of zambos resulting from recent unions of Amerindian women to Afro-Ecuadorian men are not uncommon in major coastal cities of Ecuador. Prior to the rural to urban migration, the Amerindian and Afro-Ecuadorian ethnicities were mostly constrained to the Andes region and province of Esmeraldas and the Chota Valley in the province of Imbabura respectively.

In Mexico, where they were known as lobos (literally meaning wolf), they formed a sizeable minority in the past. The great majority of lobos have now been absorbed into the much larger Mexican Mestizo population. Greater concentrations can only be found in tiny communities scattered around the southern coastal states, including Michoacán, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Campeche, Quintana Roo, Yucatán, and Veracruz, where the country's Afro-Mexicans reside.



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[FriedChkn4Eva]

I've been watchin couple of your videos for a while cus i'm researchin my own native heritage. I know it's mestizo but it's a bit more i haven't quite figured out yet, cus my family is related to Moors and that's a crazy history in itself. To the black/latin america.. that guy is jus what sum call "disinformationists", they're agents hired by others to promote a false idea. (cont'd)

[BlackAmericanIndia]

@FriedChkn4Eva Thanks for sharing

[cherissediazz]

Ok so my family is from TRINIDAD & TOBAGO and my mom's dad mom who is my great grand mother is from Venezuela and people tell me that most venezuela's are a mix of indigenous/native american, African , European,Spanish ancestry

my mom told me that her grand ma had very long hair and that she was mixed with native american European and African mostly native america and black

[BlackAmericanIndia]

@cherissediazz Thanks for sharing. My uncle is Indian from Trinidad (Indian from India), but we are not blood related.

[MiguelCaballero57]

Hola, I'm from Michoacan (pronounced Meech-o-ah-kahn), and likely partially P'urhepecha (pronounced Poor-eh-peh-cha, the Poor as in Standard & Poor's) and its great to hear you have interest in the region. The word Michoacan is not P'urhepecha but Nahautl (a.k.a. Mexica or Aztec) and it means "place of those who have fish". Vicente Guerrero, Mexico's 2nd president was partially black. People in Mexico intermarried so that's why they may not seem as "black". Mix of black and white are "mulatos"

[BlackAmericanIndia]

@MiguelCaballero57 Hello Hello distant friend. Thanks for responding and sharing some information. I would love if you could share more information/links regarding the topic.

Blessings!!

[FriedChkn4Eva]

I seen a woman on a history channel show "Brad Metzers Decoded" or sumthin like that.. it was an episode on the Mt. Rushmore hall of records. The lady is white but you look EXACTLY like her, especially when u smile your features are undeniable. Many times white people don't always get that when Native Americans mix with Blacks, we look closer to each other cus our human lineage is older. Whites come out lookin like mongoloids mostly half the time cus theirs is younger than the rest.

[BlackAmericanIndia]

@maug2112 Not sure if I responded to your comment, but thank you for sharing.