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#truth undoing internalized oppression. We have to talk about to dismantle it. Thank you Saul Williams @saulwilliams for documenting and speaking truth “ Black Stacey” #decolonize #truthsayer #black #dominicanslovehaitians #dismantlingracism #haitian #dominican #afrodominicanx #saulwilliams #blackjesus #brujo #ase #performance #poetry

[dominicanslovehaitians]

Loving that headwrap sis! Grateful for the love @zuboogie #dominicanslovehaitians #afrodominicanx

[dominicanslovehaitians]

For Black Latinx in the U.S., bicultural, bilingual ― if they are lucky ― and born to immigrant parents, there is no motherland. Though 25 percent of U.S. Latinos self-identify as Afro-Latino, we are not always made to feel at home in our own country. To be Latinx in the U.S. is to encounter xenophobic rhetoric from the top of our nation’s political leadership down to its base. To be black Latinx is to discover that xenophobia layered with anti-black rhetoric brews even among our own ethnic group. Scholars Miriam Jiménez Román and the late Juan Flores consider W.E.B. Du Bois when describing the experience of the Afro-Latino in the U.S. as a triple consciousness — an awareness of being black, Latino and American. It is an elastic awareness, a way of moving in the world that has been woefully underexplored in America and in Spanish-language media and entertainment. As an Afro-Latina, I often wondered: Where are my people? Where are those who crave mangú for breakfast, a Cuban sandwich for lunch and tres leches dessert? Where are those who love the “One Day at a Time” reboot with a Latin cast but winced when Lydia, played by Rita Moreno, repeats with conviction, “Cubans are white!” Didn’t abuela dance to Celia Cruz every morning as she made breakfast? As soon as I could, I journeyed far from New Jersey to find my people. I looked for my kindred in the Dominican Republic, in Brazil, in Spain and in the maternal monolith I once imagined Africa to be. I was looking for that mythical interstitial place where my blackness and Latinidad could peacefully coexist. This is what I found. Dominican Republic My parents brought me to visit family in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic nearly every year as a child. What I learned from these early travel experiences was that the two ethnic groups were distinct both racially and culturally. Part 1 of 3 #afrodominicanx #afrolatina #afro #latinx #webdubois

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Day 17 of 21 T-shirt campaign. Claim ur Negritude and support our campaign to shift the narratives that we live in. #afrodominicanx #afrolatina #afro #love #black

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The Dutch crew, armed with swords, guns and torches, responded by chasing him onto the island, where he was briefly wounded and captured. Rodrigues somehow managed to grab a sword from one of his pursuers and escaped to the safety of Christiaensen’s vessel. For Mossel, Rodrigues’ resistance proved his claim that he was a renegade “black rascal” and not free. The Dutch courts disagreed with him, however, and by not returning Rodrigues to Mossel, implicitly ruled that he was a free man. With the conclusion of the court case, Rodrigues disappeared from the written historical record. Some accounts suggest that he remained in Manhattan and established a trading post, where he was supplied with axes, kettles and other metal tools to barter with the Lenape. As the first-known nonindigenous resident of the region, he had knowledge about local language, customs and values that was invaluable to the growing number of Dutch visitors and settlers. He may have married and had children with a local woman and was perhaps still in the region when the Dutch West India Company arrived in Manhattan in 1625. After 1626, when the Dutch West India Company brought a cargo of 11 Africans to Manhattan, Rodrigues was joined by more people of color. It is possible that Rodrigues stayed on Manhattan as late as the 1640s, when 100 Africans were living on the island (most enslaved) and formed over one-third of the labor force. Some reports indicate that he may have become known as Jan de Fort Orange and lived near the present-day Bowery in a community of free blacks.

Jan Rodrigues: The 1st Black Man to Set Foot on the Island of Manhattan