Afro-Latinx

Salvador de Bahia. Old market. 1960

One fifth of Colombians have some African heritage, one of the largest black populations outside of the continent of Africa.

The Maids of Havana by Pedro Perez Sarduy

Hija de Mi Madre; Odas De La Mujer De Miel, both by Ynanna Djehuty (note: author’s former name is listed as Carmen Mojica)

Unbecoming Blackness by Antonio Lopez

Racism Without Racists by Eduardo Bonilla Silva (ch. 8)

Mama’s Girl; Marisol & Magdalena; Quinceanera Means Sweet 15; and Celia Cruz Queen of Salsa, all by Veronica Chambers

Afro-Latin Americans Today: No Longer Invisible edited by Minority Rights Group

Pichon: Race and Revolution in Castro’s Cuba, A Memoir; Castro, The Blacks, and Africa, both by Carlos Moore

The AfroLatin@ Reader edited by Miriam Jimenez Roman and Juan Flores

An Old Woman Remembers: The Recollected History of West Indians in Panama, 1855-1955; Miss Anna’s Son Remembers both by Carlos E. Russell

De Barbados a Panama-From Barbados to Panama by Melva Lowe de Goodin

Women Warriors of the AfroLatina-Diaspora edited by Marta Moreno Vega, Yvette Modestin, & Marinieves Alba

shoutout to Afro-Latinxs who have to deal with racism from white/mestizo Latinxs 

shoutout to Afro-Latinxs who only speak English, it just a language, it doesn’t make you any less or more Latinxs 

shoutout to Afro-Latinxs who speak Spanish, but have to explain why they speak Spanish so perfectly

shoutout to Afro-Latinxs who get asked if they are Dominican

shoutout to Afro-Latinxs who are now identifying as an Afro-Latinx and accepting their blackness

shoutout to Afro-Latinxs who struggle calling themselves black because your nationality was your race

shoutout to Afro-Latinxs who don’t identify as black, but are fully aware and embrace their African blood

shoutout to Afro-Latinxs who struggle with African Americans who calls you black, but don’t accept you. 

shoutout to Afro-Latinxs who are Dominicans but are not anti-black nor anti-Haitian

shoutout to Afro-Latinxs who struggle to find a place where they belong. 

shoutout to Afro-Latinxs who have their experiences dismissed by both African Americans and non Afro-Latinxs

shoutout to Afro-Latinxs who are dark-skin 

shoutout to Afro-Latinxs who are light-skin

shoutout to Afro-Latinxs who are pure black/African descent 

shoutout to Afro-Latinxs who are mixed/bi-racial/tri-racial 

The belief that Black and Latino are mutually exclusive is a harsh, hurtful blanket assumption that blatantly dismisses the Afro-Latino identity.

In this installment of ‪#‎DefineBLACK‬, Angeley Crawford shares her experience growing up Costa Rican in pre-hipster Bushwick, BK and the otherness that came with it. 

Afro-Argentines

Tango Negro:The African Roots of Tango (2013)

Showing at Thalia Theater 3/14