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The present article is a product of a social-anthropological research about the religion know as santeria performed in Catemaco, Veracruz, México in 2008. The principal objective was to explore and to analyze the different ways in which people build their realities the lifestyles, the spaces (domains) and interaction the main symbols and the local traditions, searching for the origin relationship and mixing by specific practices such as witch craft the spiritism, the folk-healing, craft, etc. At last, to discover the use and the ways that the men and women use them inside the region, from the acquisition of transnational images, discourses and ideas that establish on an imaginary way, building a Mexican santeria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is divided in four parts. After the introduction, Roche's art is sketched in five basic categories (ontology, religion, epistemology, aesthetics, and politics.) In the third part, the essay focuses on the ways blackness is presented in order to deal with racialization in a critical way. Finally, based on this explicit racial dimension, the essay argues an implicit interplay between blackness and santería. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]