Filmmaker Ebony Bailey talks Blaxican identity and African presence in Mexico | THE ARCHIVE

On this episode, we spoke with documentary filmmaker, Ebony Bailey. From Central California, now residing in Mexico, Ebony, who’s of Black and Mexican descent (she self-identifies as Blaxican) chatted with us about HOME + the role it plays in her work, identity, and her newest film “Jamaica y Tamarindo.”

MEDIA PLAYLIST

WATCH:
– Street Foods of Latin America: Salvador, Brazil *available on Netflix
– Life Between Borders: Black Migrants in Mexico (dir. Ebony Bailey, 2019) https://vimeo.com/203384382
– Jamaica y Tamarindo: Afro Traditions in the Heart of Mexico (dir. Ebony Bailey, 2019) https://vimeo.com/368391946

READ:
– Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi
– An African – American and Latinx History of the United States, Paul Ortiz
– Sana Sana, Ariana Brown
– Farming While Black, Leah Penniman

FOLLOW US:
EBONY BAILEY: https://www.instagram.com/ebonymarieb/
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MUSIC:
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ART:
XANDRA: https://www.instagram.com/afro.emotion/

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