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HORSEMEN OF THE BORDER<\/div>\n
Luj\u00e1n Agusti, Argentina \/ Mexico<\/div>\n

A project commissioned by Africamericanos<\/i><\/p>\n

Unlike the Afrodescendants of Guerrero and Veracruz, who were brought to Mexico as slave labor by Spanish colonists, the Mascogos arrived in Coahuila after escaping from slavery in the United States.<\/p>\n

Also known as black Seminoles and led by John Horse, the Mascogos came to Mexico in the mid-nineteenth century, displaced by land seizures and fleeing slavery and racial discrimination. The government welcomed them, on the condition that they form patrols to defend the northern border from incursions by nomadic groups. In exchange, they received land, cattle, and Mexican citizenship. In late 1851, they settled at El Nacimiento de los Negros, adjacent to ancestral Kickapoo territory, in the municipality of M\u00fazquiz, Coahuila, in northern Mexico.<\/p>\n

Today about seventy families live in this community, running farms where they grow beans, corn, and wheat and raise cows and goats. In spite of mestizaje<\/i>, some Mascogos still have the physical features of their ancestors. They are known for being excellent horsemen, and it is customary for them to learn to ride at a very young age, though they never give their horses names.<\/p>\n

Each year the Mascogos celebrate Juneteenth (a contraction of the words \u2018June\u2019 and \u2018nineteenth\u2019) to commemorate the abolition of slavery in the state of Texas. On this day, everyone in the community wears traditional clothing to celebrate his or her roots, dancing and eating ancestral dishes.<\/p>\n

Luj\u00e1n Agusti<\/p>\n

\u2015Portraits taken during the celebration of Juneteenth in El Nacimiento de los Negros, Coahuila, 2018.<\/p>\n

LUJ\u00c1N AGUSTI<\/div>\n
(b. 1986) Chubut, Argentina\/ Mexico City, Mexico<\/div>\n

In her work, Luj\u00e1n Agusti explores issues surrounding the construction of identity in relation to the territories and places we inhabit. She uses photography as her principal language, while also employing other disciplines to analyze her environment. In 2017 she received a fellowship from the International Women’s Media Foundation and an Emerging Artist Scholarship from the Lucie Foundation. Her work has been published in National Geographic<\/i>, The Washington Post<\/i>, Lens<\/i> (blog), and The British Journal of Photography<\/i>. In 2018 she was selected for the 6×6 Global Talent Program of World Press Photo. She is the author of Un mont\u00f3n de ropa<\/i> (A Bunch of Clothes), a privately published photobook that appeared in 2016. She belongs to the Agencia ZUR in Argentina and is a member of the collective Prime, a global initiative made up of documentary photographers, filmmakers, and visual artists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-proyecto-en.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015,"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions\/1015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}