#afro latinx

[granvarones]

my brother nicholas was born on christmas day in 1979. this is why our mother chose the name nicholas - in honor of saint nicholas who is believed to be the inspiration for santa claus aka “saint nick.” this is probably the only time my mother acknowledged saints that were not divas like diana ross, princess diana and tina turner.

nicholas was three years younger than me and a lot of what i witnessed, experienced, and survived as a child, was done with him by my side. he was my first audience. he’d watch me lip sync and dance to songs by the mary jane girls, janet jackson, en vogue, the good girls and paula abdul well into our teen years.

nicholas loved hip-hop. when he was just 10 years old in 1991, he purchased vanilla ice’s debut album. something i am sure he’d deny. but ya know, i recently heard “ice ice baby” and no shade, vanilla kinda snapped with that flow. but i digress.

nicholas’ favorite rapper was kool g rap. he loved driving. he loved having a car. he was driving at age 12. he was funny as hell. he’d punch anyone who dared call me a “faggot” in the face. and he loved being a father.

my brother nicholas was murdered on may 9, 2001. he was 22 years old.

we didn’t grow up celebrating birthdays, but those were spent together. there were no birthday cakes, but we did have tasty cakes. we had each other even when we didn’t think that was something worth having.

i remember almost everything. i refuse to forget. sometimes i feel i have a lack of evidence of our lives together because we don’t pictures together during our teen years. but i refuse to forget. it is the sharing of our stories that i document his existence.

today, i am wishing the biggest and happiest heavenly birthday to brother nicholas. i will speak your name over and over and over. i love you.

#granvarones #gay #queer #afro latinx #storytelling #family #christmas

[tsulas]

Times have slowed~

#me #follow me #fav #my face #afro latinx #afro latina #box braids #knotlessbraids #knotless braids #braided hair #black girl #alt black girl #alternative black women #alternative black girl #420girls #Sacramento girls #bay area girl #afro mexican #alternative indie #light skin girls #lightskin girls #hipster #chat me

[havatabanca]

#race #blackness #afro latinx #black culture #creole #mixed #mixed blackness #dembow #caribbean blackness #afro caribbean #latinidad

[blackcultureis]

Rules & Intro

This is a culture blog for all black people of any ethnicity. This blog was made to create community. That said, I also post things about Black history and different issues Black people face.

So far, this blog is only run by me, CK (they/them). Reblogs, asks and submissions are always appreciated.

Rules

Please start all posts with a variation of "black/afro culture is." For example, "black biracial culture is", "Afro-Caribbean culture is," "blasian culture is," "queer black culture is," and so on.

ALL black people are welcome on this blog.

Try to avoid discourse; this blog is about creating a black community here on tumblr.

Do no submit anything sexist, colorist, ablest, and/or queerphobic. You can talk about these topics, but your submission cannot support it.

Include content or trigger warnings when appropriate

#black culture is #mod c #culture is #blacklivesmatter #african american #african #caribbean #blacklove #black women #black lives matter #black hair #black is beautiful #afro indigenous #afro caribbean #afro latina #afro latinx #afro asian #black boys #black girl

[sbrown82]

How come every time I say I’m Hispanic, people automatically assume I’m Dominican??? 🤨🤦🏾‍♀️

#afro latinx #afro latina #black nicaraguans #what? i’m too dark to be from paraguay or something? #colorism

[rickchung]

Beba (dir. Rebeca Huntt) x DOXA 2023.

Huntt crafts Beba into a haunting Afro-Latinx autobiographical documentary about a New Yorker's cultural past. She stitches together a movingly unvarnished visual poem of a hungry biracial artist trying to define herself through a mixed ancestry of conflict. It's a thoughtful summation of someone struggling to define themselves while addressing internalized anti-Blackness.

Screened at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival. as part of the TIFF Docs program.

#beba #rebeca huntt #documentary #documentary review #movie #movies #movie review #film #film review #doxa #tiff #tiff 2021 #streaming #hulu #neon #afro latinx #afro latina #afro-latinx #afro-latina

[louiesmixtape]

before the release of her blistering underdog anthem “girl from the gutter,” kina was part of the second line-up of 90s r&b trio brownstone. singer/songwriter kina recorded only one album with brownstone, their 1997 album “still climbing,” before striking out on her own.

kina signed with the short-lived dreamworks label after leaving brownstone and released her self-titled debut album in july 2000. “girl from the gutter” served as the album’s lead single and the fiery guitar driven track was an immediate add at VH-1 and the box video channel.

unfortunately, despite the strong radio play “girl from the gutter” only managed to chart of the billboard dance chart peaking at #21. two more singles followed but failed to garner radio spins. by 2001, kina parted ways with dreamworks records. the label folded in 2003.

like dionne farris, kina would have garnered greater success had it not been for anti-blackness and america’s resistance to black rock artists.

#louiesmixtape #kina #black rock #music history #lgbtq #afro latinx #Youtube #2000s #2000s music

[sexyg8ymen]

Paniagua😮‍💨😮‍💨

#sexy latinos #gay sexy #sexy gay #gay onlyfans #gayman #gay pride #gayguy #lgbtq positivity #lgbtq #gay latinx #gay latin men #gay latino #afro latina #gay naked #gay nswf #gay ns/fw #gayhot #gay #lgbtqa #lgbtqplus

[latin-american-diversity]

Yemanja: Wisdom from the African Heart of Brazil (2015), Donna Roberts, Donna Read, Brazil

#candomble #afro-brazilian #iemanjá #brazil #latinx #yemayá #latin america #brasil

[kemetic-dreams]

The Invention of Hispanics: What It Says About the Politics of Race

America’s surging politics of victimhood and identitarian division did not emerge organically or inevitably, as many believe. Nor are these practices the result of irrepressible demands by minorities for recognition, or for redress of past wrongs, as we are constantly told. Those explanations are myths, spread by the activists, intellectuals, and philanthropists who set out deliberately, beginning at mid-century, to redefine our country. Their goal was mass mobilization for political ends, and one of their earliest targets was the Mexican-American community.

These activists strived purposefully to turn Americans of this community (who mostly resided in the Southwestern states) against their countrymen, teaching them first to see themselves as a racial minority and then to think of themselves as the core of a pan-ethnic victim group of “Hispanics”—a fabricated term with no basis in ethnicity, culture, or race.

This transformation took effort—because many Mexican Americans had traditionally seen themselves as white. When the 1930 Census classified “Mexican American” as a race, leaders of the community protested vehemently and had the classification changed back to white in the very next census. The most prominent Mexican-American organization at the time—the patriotic, pro-assimilationist League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)—complained that declassifying Mexicans as white had been an attempt to “discriminate between the Mexicans themselves and other members of the white race, when in truth and fact we are not only a part and parcel but as well the sum and substance of the white race.”

Tracing their ancestry in part to the Spanish who conquered South and Central America, they regarded themselves as offshoots of white Europeans.

Such views may surprise readers today, but this was the way many Mexican Americans saw their race until mid-century. They had the law on their side: a federal district court ruled in In Re Ricardo Rodríguez (1896) that Mexican Americans were to be considered white for the purposes of citizenship concerns. And so as late as 1947, the judge in another federal case (Mendez v. Westminster) ruled that segregating Mexican-American students in remedial schools in Orange County was unconstitutional because it represented social disadvantage, not racial discrimination.

At that time Mexican Americans were as white before the law as they were in their own estimation.

The process would only work if Mexican Americans “accepted a disadvantaged minority status,” as sociologist G. Cristina Mora of U.C. Berkeley put it in her study, Making Hispanics (2014). But Mexican Americans themselves left no doubt that they did not feel like members of a collectively oppressed minority at all. As Skerry noted, “[the] race idea is somewhat at odds with the experience of Mexican Americans, over half of whom designate themselves racially as white.” Even in the early 1970s, according to Mora, many Mexican-American leaders retained the view that “persons of Latin American descent were quite diverse and would eventually assimilate and identify as white.” And yet “Spanish/Hispanic/Latino” is now a well-established ethnic category in the U.S. Census, and many who select it have been taught to see themselves as a victmized underclass. How did this happen?

In other words, a distinctive set of beliefs, customs, and habits supported the American political system. If the Cajun, the Dutch, the Spanish—and the Mexicans—were to be allowed into the councils of government, they would have to adopt these mores and abandon some of their own. It is hard to argue that this formula has failed. Writing in 2004, political scientist Samuel Huntington reminded us that

“Millions of immigrants and their children achieved wealth, power, and status in American society precisely because they assimilated themselves into the prevailing culture.”

Indeed, merely calling Mexican-Americans a ‘minority’ and implying that the population is the victim of prejudice and discrimination has caused irritation among many who prefer to believe themselves indistinguishable [from] white Americans…. [T]here are light-skinned Mexican-Americans who have never experienced the faintest…discrimination in public facilities, and many with ambiguous surnames have also escaped the experiences of the more conspicuous members of the group.”

Even worse, there was also “the inescapable fact that…even comparatively dark-skinned Mexicans…could get service even in the most discriminatory parts of Texas,” according to the report. These experiences, so different from those of Africans in the South or even parts of the North, had produced

a long and bitter controversy among middle-class Mexican Americans about defining the ethnic group as disadvantaged by any other criterion than individual failures. The recurring evidence that well-groomed and well-spoken Mexican Americans can receive normal treatment has continuously undermined either group or individual definition of the situation as one entailing discrimination.

It is incumbent on us to pause and note exactly what these UCLA researchers were bemoaning. Their own survey was revealing that Mexican-Americans’ lived experiences did not square with their being passive victims of invidious, structural discrimination, much less racial animus. They owned their own failures, which—their experience told them—were remediable through individual conduct, not mass mobilization. Their touchstones were individualism, personal responsibility, family, solidarity, and independence—all cherished by most Americans at the time, but anathema to the activists.

The study openly admitted that reclassification as a collective entity serves the “purposes of enabling one to see the group’s problems in the perspective of the problems of other groups.” The aim was to show “that Mexican Americans share with Negroes the disadvantages of poverty, economic insecurity and discrimination.” The same thing, however, could have been said in the late 1960s of the Scots-Irish in Appalachia or Italian Americans in the Bronx. But these experiences were not on the same level as the crushing and legal discrimination that African Americans had faced on a daily basis. That is why the survey respondents emphasized “the distinctiveness of Mexican Americans” from Africans and “the difference in the problems faced by the two groups.” The UCLA researchers came out pessimistic: Mexican Americans were “not yet easy to merge with the other large minorities in political coalition.”

Thereafter, militants from La Raza, MALDEF, and other organizations put pressure on the Census Bureau to create a Hispanic identity for the 1980 Census—in order, as Mora puts it, “to persuade them to classify ‘Hispanics’ as distinct from whites.”

The Hispanic category was a Frankenstein’s monster, an amalgam of disparate ethnic groups with precious little in common.

The 1970 Census had included an option to indicate that the respondent was “Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American, [or] Other Spanish.” But re-categorizing Mexican Americans and lumping them in with other residents of Latin American descent under a “Hispanic American” umbrella was a necessary move, Mora writes, because “this would best convey their national minority group status.”

The law states that “a large number of Americans of Spanish origin or descent suffer from racial, social, economic, and political discrimination and are denied the basic opportunities that they deserve as American citizens.” The very thing that defined Hispanics was victimhood.

IT IS SHOWN THAT THE HUMAN CATEGORY "WHITE" WAS BUILT UPON THE IDEA OF THAT BRITISH AS WHITE, CHRISTIAN, OF THEIR ESSENCE FREE,AND DESERVING OF RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES FROM WHICH THOSE INSUFFICIENTLY BRITISH -LIKE COULD BE DENIED. JACQUELINE BATTALORA "BIRTH OF A WHITE NATION.

#hispanics #latina #afro latina #curvy latina #latin girls #latinx #sexy latina #thick latina #latino #kemetic dreams #brownskin #brown skin #mexican #mexicana #mexico #mexique #mextagram #white #black and white #white house #census data #censura #qsmp census bureau #u.s. census bureau #tumblr censure #the invention of the Hispanic #african #afrakan #afrakans #africans

[tsulas]

How much do you miss me ? ❤️

#me #follow me #afro mexican #afro latinx #afro latina #blaxican #black girls #Los Angeles #bay area girl #light skin girls #lightskin girl #alt black girl #alternative black women #big tiddy gf #afro hair #420girls #of girl #submisive girl #mixed black girl #mixed girl #sexy tease #blackgirlmagic #la girls

[pondering-zvoon]

See now I’m putting 2 and 2 together.

Miles calls Miguel Tio right when he meets him. It’s not reciprocated explicitly but who fuckin know what’s happenin in 2099’s head.

We all know that Tio means Uncle.

It would be sickening to have Miguel somehow be related to Mile’s canon event as an Uncle Ben moment.

#even symbolically #uncle aaron was black #miguel is latino #miles is mixed race/afro-latinx #miles gets two tios and two canon moments #maybe #across the spiderverse #spiderman across the spiderverse spoliers #spiderman across the spiderverse #miles morales #miguel o'hara #spiderman 2099

[ad0rechuu]

i honestly think that i can grow a better mustache than most kpop boys if i wanted to

#is it because i’m (afro-)latinx??? yess #the mustache is in my blood #ad0rechuu — rambles 😧

[haleygravesofficial]

Hey wassup,

I'm Haley Graves! I'm a 21 year old Queer, Black Afro LatinX Pop Punk Musician. I sing about women 🤪

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[louiesmixtape]

the brief resurgence of freestyle music in the mid to late 1990s was a time! after losing clout at radio and club land at the start of the 1990s, freestyle music was being (re)discovered thanks in part to collage, lil suzy, planet soul featuring nadine rene, lina santiago, and jocelyn enriquez. these artists all managed to release freestyle songs that were sonically in concert with the ever-evolving dance/pop sound.

as a new fan to genre in 1994, coupled with the fact that i am a completionist, i was on a search to listen and purchase every freestyle song and that especially included new releases. so when i first heard buffy’s “give me…a reason” in early 1995, i was on a mission.

now, doing this work was not easy in 1995. my access to the internet was by watching people talk about it on tv (lol) and music magazine’s seldom, if almost never covered freestyle music. so i would just spend hours in the singles section of tower records records going through every CD single until i thought i recognized a title of a song i was looking for. it was WORK!

discovered by frequent stevie b. collaborator dadgel atabay while singing at a friend's wedding, buffy solango landed on billboard's hot 100 in 1996 with "give me...a reason." signed to filipino independent label velocity records, buffy's debut single "give me... a reason" quickly became a regional hit in the bay area upon its release in late 1994.

"give me...a reason" landed on radio playlists nationally and finally reached a respectable peak of #78 on billboard's hot 100 in late march 1996. buffy‘a debut and only album “first love” was a solid release. two additional singles, “no one” and “2 find u” were released by were regulated to regional airplay.

#louiesmixtape #90s music #music history #1990s #1990s music #latin freestyle #buffy #afro latinx #lgbtq #Youtube

[casimir0]

In 2015, the Mexican government finally recognized its 1.38 million citizens of African descent in a national survey, signifying a tremendous victory for the Afro-Mexican community who had up to that moment largely gone unnoticed on the margins of Mexican society. Chacahua and El Azufre, small villages located on the Pacific coast of Oaxaca, are populated mainly by Afro-Mexicans.

-  Cécile Smetana Baudier

#mexico #latinx #latino #mexican #latin american #afro mexican #afromexicano #north american #afro-mexicans #afrolatino #afro latno #cécile smetana baudier