Afro-Latinx

A blog for Afro-Latinxs. Un blog para Afro-Latinxs

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I feel like this hair should extend summer at least 2 months.

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Market Activity in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, Feb 9, 1978

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Salvador de Bahia. Old market. 1960

René Burri Photography 

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

Photo: Richard Emblin

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Celia Cruz y Pedro Knight 

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I knew I was black when growing up I was jealous of Antonio Bandera’s sleek hair because society told me that his Eurocentric standard beauty was the only way to be beautiful. I knew I was black when I realized I didn’t look like him. That even though some of my ancestors might have migrated from…

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Bringing this back cause gelopanda brought his back lol

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Afr@Latin@ Books for Multiple Age Groups: Get Hip

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

- Posted by Vio @donawa_violeta

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(vía 10 Afro-Latino Cities You Probably Don’t Know About)

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Loletha Elayne “Lola” Falana

Lola was an Afro-Cubana discovered by Sammy Davis Jr. while she was dancing in a nightclub. She was featured role in his 1964 Broadway musical Golden Boy. From 1971 to 1975, Lola Falana was married to Feliciano “Butch” Tavares, one of five brothers of the popular R&B band Tavares.

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Afro-Mexicana 

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shoutout to Afro-Latinxs who have to constantly explain that black people do exist in Latin America. 

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 

shoutout to every single Afro-Latinx in this world cause I am a proud Afro-Latino and I love mi gente. I pray to God everyday and every night that y’all are very proud to be Afro-Latinxs and wear it pride because being an Afro-Latinx is a gift, not given. 

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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. 

Posted by Define: BLACK. on Monday, November 9, 2015

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Afro-Argentines

1908

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Tango Negro:The African Roots of Tango (2013)

Showing at Thalia Theater 3/14

Keep reading

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Now in theaters!  More info at www.tangonegrofilm.com

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A young Venezuelan man from the coastal town of Chirimena