# AFRICAN-MEXICAN COMMUNITIES  
## Excluded from the Mexican Nation <br> Paulette A. Ramsay  
In the first years of the twenty-first century, almost five hundred years after the conquest, it is surprising that Mexicans as well as foreigners are still shocked on discovering the black presence in Mexico.  
Ben Vinson III and Bobby Vaughn, Afroméxico  
For Afro-Mexicans, descendants of enslaved Africans brought into New Spain during the first three centuries of colonial rule, recognition and acceptance have been delayed, due to their reduced and scattered presence among more than sixty different "indigenous" groups, but primarily the result of Mexico's self-avowed mestizo credentials.  
Father Glyn Jemmott Nelson