After 25 years, Angélica Sorrosa Alvarado is the last staff member left at Museo de las Culturas Afromestizas. She fears that soon it will be forced to close its doors
‘There are children here who do not want to be black’: one woman’s bid to save Mexico’s first Afro-Mexican museum
In the Costa Chica region, which is home to Mexico’s largest population of African-Mexicans, the museum is unique in the country. When it opened 25 years ago, it was heralded as recognition of the more than 2.5 million Afro-Mexicans in a country that had long overlooked them. A physiotherapist, Alvarado fits in enough sessions to keep herself going financially while dedicating the rest of her time to keeping the museum going. But she feels defeated. With one hand on her chest, she says she regularly struggles to breathe after sweeping the floor and cleaning the exhibits of the dust that blows in from the street. The physical work makes her “bones and muscles ache throughout the night”.
For Afro-Mexicans, who today make up approximately 2% of the population, their identity was almost completely omitted from Mexico’s national history records, textbooks and travel guides.
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