Pericles and the coastal rogues,

Mestizos and Creoles in the print media of Bluefields 1894-1920

Abstract

In this paper, the author tries to prove the importance of mestizaje and the existence of the ethnic groups of the Coast in the conformation of the Nicaraguan nationality. He affirms that one is only in front of the other and that the late emergence of a Nicaraguan nationalist feeling in the XIX century has in the mestizaje one of its main foundational myths. In its conceptualization process, this is affirmed when the “mestizo” people of the Pacific migrate to the Caribbean coast and coexist with the Miskito, Sumas and Creoles ethnic groups of that region. One is only a mestizo to the extent that one is confronted with other ethnic groups. In this article, the exercise is carried out with the Afro-Caribbeans or Creoles.