Unpacking Blackness in Mexico’s Costa Chica

Unpacking Blackness in Mexico’s Costa Chica When Marina Guerrero Salinas, 62, left her hometown and went to the city, people would constantly ask her where she was from. “I’d say, ‘I’m Mexican’, and they’d say, ‘But here in Mexico there aren’t black people,’” she says. “I would tell them, ‘Look how you don’t know everything…