Afro-Mexicans: The Third Root of Mexico (2011)
Journal Article
Githiora, C. (2011). Afro-Mexicans: The Third Root of Mexico. African renaissance, 8(2), 10-24

This article discusses a little known branch of the African Diaspora: Afro-Mexicans, who make up the chronological third “root” of modern Mexico, after the indigenous Mexican and Spanish European. Documented presence of Africans in Mexico goes back t... Read More about Afro-Mexicans: The Third Root of Mexico.

Child Labor in the Gold Coast: The Economics of Work, Education, and the Family in Late-Colonial African Childhoods, c. 1940-57 (2011)
Journal Article
Lord, J. (2011). Child Labor in the Gold Coast: The Economics of Work, Education, and the Family in Late-Colonial African Childhoods, c. 1940-57. Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, 4(1), 88-115. https://doi.org/10.1353/hcy.2011.0005

Historical knowledge of childhood in the Gold Coast (modern Ghana) is sparse and too often disconnected from a global historiography that has convincingly demonstrated the "child" to be a social construct. In contemporary discourse the "African child... Read More about Child Labor in the Gold Coast: The Economics of Work, Education, and the Family in Late-Colonial African Childhoods, c. 1940-57.