The Mexican Colonial Term

Marco Polo Hernández Cuevas

Corpus ID: 142322782

The Mexican Colonial Term "Chino" Is a Referent of Afrodescendant

@article{Cuevas2012TheMC,
  title={The Mexican Colonial Term "Chino" Is a Referent of Afrodescendant},
  author={Marco Polo Hern{\'a}ndez Cuevas},
  journal={The Journal of Pan-African Studies},
  year={2012},
  volume={5},
  pages={124}
}

Marco Polo Hernández Cuevas

Published 2012

Sociology

The Journal of Pan-African Studies

Abstract Apparently unaware of the existence of at least three Spanish language homonyms of "chino" with different significations, times and places of origin, there is a considerable research corpus inaccurately translating as "Chinese" the Mexican colonial name "chino," found in Mexican colonial documents from the late sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. To disentangle the confusion of the linguistic problem outlined, this work tracks the distinct etymologies of "chino" meaning… CONTINUE READING