Afro-descendants and social stratification in Mexico. New evidence from the 2015 Intercensal Survey

Abstract

The 2015 Intercensal Survey marks the first time African descent self-identification was included on a nationally representative survey in Mexico. Before that, there were no nation-wide official counts of the Afro-Mexican population. In this paper we use ordinal logistic regression models to examine the effect of being Afro-descendant on the educational and occupational status of Mexi-cans. Contrary to expectations, our results show that, at the national level, there is no evidence that the self-identified Afro-Mexican population has a lower socioeconomic status than other Mexicans. This contradictory result may be attributed to a higher likelihood of Afro-descendant self-identification among more educated people, and lower among the most disadvantaged, par-ticularly in areas where Afro-Mexicans are less represented.

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“…Northern Mexico has a higher rate of European trait carriers ( 33 , 34 ) and intermediate rates in the Central Region ( 35–37 ), contrasting with Southern Mexico, who are more likely to be carriers of Amerindian traits ( 35 , 39 ) including the true Native Americans per se ( 38 ). African ancestry is present in varying quantities among the admixed general population and Afro-Mexicans who reside along the South Pacific and the Gulf of Mexico coastal communities ( 40 ). Further genetic studies show indigenous mitochondrial DNA as the maternal source of inheritance, while Y-STR analysis tracks European paternal lineage ( 37 , 41 ).…”