#afrolatinidad

[colombinna]

Being a black person in/from the global south is like having a special invisibility cloak that works in [specially online] discourse where people seem to act like these two identities you have don't coexist, OR people who aren't both speak about you like you're not online and can't speak for yourself. Specially when it comes to discussions about/involving Latin America.

#blackness #afrolatinidad #afrolatine #afro-latinos #latinidad #latam #politic discourse #sometimes ALL of you are terrible to us idk. #and ALL OF YOU reject the privileges you have on us #i feel like im screaming at walls here bc no one ever cares about afrolatine matters no matter how much i talk about it online

[danayescanaverino]

🗣 Latina Author: JASMINNE MENDEZ Let's talk #AfroLatinidad with best-selling Dominican-American poet, educator, translator, playwright and award winning author Jasminne Mendez as we discuss her new book, "City Without Altar" today on @Clubhouse! 🗓 Date: 10/10 ⏰Time: 8 PM EST / 7PM CST 👇👇Our Guest: 👇👇 📚 @jasminnemendez Jasminne Mendez is a best-selling Dominican-American poet, educator, translator, playwright and award winning author of several books for children and adults. She has had poetry and essays published in numerous journals and anthologies and she is the author of two multi-genre collections including Island of Dreams(Floricanto Press, 2013) which won an International Latino Book Award. Her debut poetry collection City Without Altar was a finalist for the Noemi Press poetry prize and was released in August 2022(Noemi Press) and her debut middle grade novel in verse Aniana del Mar Jumps In (Dial) is forthcoming in 2023. Her debut picture book Josefina’s Habichuelas (Arte Publico Press, 2021) was the Writer’s League of Texas Children’s Book Discovery Prize Winner. She has translated the work of NYT Best Selling author Amanda Gorman and the Houston Grand Opera. She is an MFA graduate of the creative writing program at the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University and a University of Houston alumni. 👇 MODERATOR 🎙 @mrbravo365 👉 Link in bio @amigosmax 👇👇 Check out some of these AMIGOS members & MAKE connections! @kauryspolanco @thespiritualteacher @planningwithsanti @docricocafe @jackiehss @alecortinaxo @nandoism @jorgeloyo @lataniamarryortega @mrmarinnyc @theimpactfulparent @taoswildflower @janiebmorales @rafismiamibeach #LatinxBooks #latinxlit #latinxauthors #libros #LatinxHeritageMonth #LatineHeritageMonth #LatineHispanicHeritageMonth #hispanicculture #latinoculture #comunidadlatina #sisepuede #clubhouselatinos #clubhouselatino #latinosonclubhouse #latinos #latinas #latinx #hispanic #latine #afrolatina #afrolatinx #afrolatinas #afrolatino #afrolatinos (at Washington D.C.) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjiTuKXAIv_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#afrolatinidad #latinxbooks #latinxlit #latinxauthors #libros #latinxheritagemonth #latineheritagemonth #latinehispanicheritagemonth #hispanicculture #latinoculture #comunidadlatina #sisepuede #clubhouselatinos #clubhouselatino #latinosonclubhouse #latinos #latinas #latinx #hispanic #latine #afrolatina #afrolatinx #afrolatinas #afrolatino #afrolatinos

[victoriatheodoremusic]

Happy Opening to STILL READY! It’s been such a pleasure collaborating with this stellar team of artists and creators who are led by their hearts. Thank you @actorstheatre for holding space for this kind of love ❤️ This world premiere will have you laughing, crying, and falling in love. Created and performed by Broadway stars Ken Robinson (Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, The Color Purple 2016 Revival, Memphis and Baby It’s You!) and Christina Acosta Robinson (Summer: The Donna Summer Musical as Donna Summer). Victoria Theodore (CODA film pianist, Beyoncé Formation Tour, Stevie Wonder multiple tours) on keys. Directed by Executive Artistic Director Robert Barry Fleming @robertbarryfleming. Photos by Ryan Armbrust @ryanarmbrust Tickets at the link in bio. #blacklove #blackexcellence #blackartistry #afrolatinidad #domincanrepulic #music #poetry #spokenword #relationshipgoals (at Actors Theatre of Louisville) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeHbst1LdOb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#blacklove #blackexcellence #blackartistry #afrolatinidad #domincanrepulic #music #poetry #spokenword #relationshipgoals

[cartermagazine]

Today We Honor Celia Cruz…

Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso was born in 1925 in Barrio Santos Suarez in Havana, one of 4 children. In a career that spanned six decades, Celia became the “Queen of Salsa,” and was central to the genre’s rising popularity.

Celia was a true pioneer of AfroLatinidad, focusing on the African elements of her identity (music, lyrics and dress) at a time when it was not popular to do so. In 1974, Celia was one of a group of artists including B.B. King, James Brown, The Spinners, Bill Withers and Miriam Makeba that performed in Kinshasa, Zaire alongside top local groups.

The concert was part of a three day festival, “Zaire ’74,” the brainchild of South African trumpeter High Masekela. The performance was supposed to precede the famous boxing match “Rumble in the Jungle” between George Foreman and Muhammed Ali. Just before the concert was scheduled to begin, Foreman injured his eye. The bout was pushed back six weeks, but the Show went on – and was brilliantly documented in the powerful film, “Soul Power.”

CARTER™️ Magazine carter-mag.com #wherehistoryandhiphopmeet #historyandhiphop365 #cartermagazine #carter #celiacruz #blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #history #staywoke #afrolatina

#carter magazine #carter #historyandhiphop365 #wherehistoryandhiphopmeet #history #cartermagazine #today in history #staywoke #blackhistory #blackhistorymonth

[murcielagatito]

its just so :/ that yall keep "forgetting" miles is puerto rican too. like black puerto ricans exist yet when ppl talk about him most of the time they dont even include the fact that hes puertorican and enjoys things from our culture. yall are all about representation but the silence is so damn loud when it comes to latinidad and esp afrolatinidad

#miles morales #shit im saying over and over and over again #like cmon man

[reasoningdaily]

On a recent episode of Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta, Dominican-Puerto Rican reality TV star Erica Mena screamed “You monkey, you blue monkey” to Jamaican dancehall singer, songwriter, and actor Spice. The animalized anti-Black slur never seems too far from the lips of racially ambiguous, mestiza, mixed-race, and other non-Black Latinas who find success ironically because of Black women. Many people of alleged color use their proximity to Blackness as a ruse to gain success while harboring anti-Black values. 

This isn’t the first time we have seen non-Black Latinas, who may claim Afro-Latinidad at convenience, call dark-skinned unambiguously Black women an anti-Black slur in a public forum. It’s a signature and age-old move. In 2015, Mena herself reportedly called club promoters “Black monkeys” after not showing up to a scheduled nightclub appearance. Similarly, in 2019, self-professed Afro-Latina Evelyn Lozada did something similar to her Basketball Wives castmate, athlete Ogom “OG” Chijindu, using a monkey GIF to describe her on Instagram and repeatedly referring negatively to her looks.

In many of these public displays of anti-Blackness, the conflict is centered on a Black man “picking” the unambiguously Black woman over the so-called “exotic” non-Black woman. These are common tactics that I and many other unambiguous Black women have experienced at the hands of non-Black Latinas, including mestizas and light-skinned, racially ambiguous, self-proclaimed Afro-Latinas. And many of these non-Black Latinas use the categorization of Afrolatinidad as a get-out-of-jail card when they co-opt Blackness.

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"Many people of alleged color use their proximity to Blackness as a ruse to gain success while fostering anti-Black values. "

dash harris

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In 2019,Love and Hip Hop cast member Cyn Santana appeared on Angela Yee's Lip Service podcast controversially saying she prefers Black men and Black men prefer Latina women. “Y’all can keep the Puerto Rican men. I’m good,” she said, assuming she was referring to non-Black Puerto Rican men. She added: “I do Black guys all day. Black men cater to us Spanish [sic: Latina] girls especially.” When Yee suggested she would “get in trouble with the Black girls,” Santana, a mestiza of mixed Dominican and Salvadoran descent, said, “I didn’t mean it like that, but Black girls gonna take it personal and be like, uh-uh,” inserting just enough mockery to ensure the audience that her worldview is steeped in anti-Black tropes. 

Even more to that point of wide-spread misogynoir stereotyping, Santana later apologized on the talk show The Real, saying she “irresponsibly repeated something that I heard my entire life.” I believe her. I've long seen and heard this messaging in Latine communities. The truth Santana pointed to cannot be glossed over. These women date and procreate with Black men and, in turn, raise Black children, as Mena is doing, and I wonder how they treat those children through their lens of depreciating Blackness. One way is by treating them as a shield to claim they are not anti-Black.

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"In many of these public displays of anti-Blackness, the conflict is centered on a Black man “picking” the unambiguously Black woman over the so-called “exotic” non-Black woman."

dash harris

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This is tied to the misogynoir phenomena of Black men who put non-Black women on pedestals, prizing, pursuing, and “preferring” non-Black Latinas and white women and even defending them when they do dehumanize Black women in public media forums. This “preference” cannot be divorced from its anti-Black power dynamics and its cishetero white-centering patriarchy that Black men, among people in general, have been indoctrinated under and in turn perpetuate and harm Black women with. Black women seem to be where their targets intersect and lock in as their punching bag. 

Mena’s chagrin, and subsequent table-flipping that caused the melee, was because Safaree, a rapper and Mena’s ex-husband and father to her children, “chose” to care more about a woman who indeed is not his wife nor his children’s mother. But what really got Mena to reveal herself was that it was a dark-skinned Black woman, someone who in her eyes was undeserving of the adoration and worship she, a non-Black woman, is entitled to, so she had been taught. This subverted social order infraction could not go by Mena without a slur to bring Black women back to the intended subalterned place. She wanted the guarantee of preference that she was promised.

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"Non-Black women like her have been promised their whole lives that they deserve love and respect, withheld from Black women and over Black women in favor of women who look like her."

dash harris

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It is a privileged position where Mena is most comfortable because she believes in the zero-sum game of anti-Black hierarchy. This hierarchy keeps her lights on. Mena’s social currency rides in her non-Blackness and her proximity to whiteness relative to Black women. Non-Black women like her have been promised their whole lives that they deserve love and respect, withheld from Black women and over Black women in favor of women who look like her. She clamors for and is enabled by the male gaze and, furthermore, is emboldened and protected by Black men who seek refuge from their own internalized anti-Blackness in the arms of women “with less baggage and attitude” than “the Black girls.” But, as the routine racialized aggressions these women create show, even this is a myth. Together, the bond of Black men who “prefer” non-Black women and non-Black women who revel this preference replicates white pathology and notions that Black women should remain subjugated under them both. 

So many non-Black Latinas, including mestizas, mixed-race, and racially ambiguous women, have launched and sustained their careers from Black media and specifically because of Black women, like Mona Scott-Young, the creator of the Love and Hip-Hop franchise, and Shaunie O’Neal, creator of Basketball Wives. Black media gives them access into Black spaces by their “POC” proximity for them to inevitably expose their anti-Blackness, because you can only hide your ideologies for so long. Now many are calling for Mena to finally be fired from the TV series. 

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"Unambiguously Black women, whether Latina or not, are racialized as Black wherever we go and do not have the escape-hatch of racial ambiguity that other non-Black Afro-Latinas do."

dash harris

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Recently, reality TV star Joseline Hernandez called out her College Hill classmate Amber Rose for building her career from Black media but “catering to white people.” Hernandez, who is of Puerto Rican descent, identifies as a Black woman and not Afro-Latina, a distinction that seems to be even more necessary with each passing day. Unambiguously Black women, whether Latina or not, are racialized as Black wherever we go and do not have the escape-hatch of racial ambiguity that other non-Black Afro-Latinas do. 

Hemispherically, Black women are the butts of “jokes” for non-Black, mixed-race, bi-racial, and racially ambiguous women. In 2016, Geisha Montes de Oca (who was 2008's Miss World Dominican Republic) mocked Black Dominican singer Amara La Negra on a popular variety show by wearing an Afro wig, butt pads, and blackface. In 2013, Black Brazilian actor Nayara Justino was dethroned from her title of Miss Globaleza carnival queen in favor of a light-skinned bi-racial woman after public outcry of Justino being “too Black.” She was also subjected to violent anti-Black attacks online that negatively impacted her health.

These viral reality TV moments unveil how anti-Blackness and misogyny are like a rite of passage for many non-Black Latinas. And these are only the recorded examples. As Santana noted on The Real, oftentimes, these are the messages non-Black Latinas were raised with and didn’t question or resist because they benefited from them. She noted that when she made her own viral anti-Black comments she was in her early 20s and that now, “27 with a son,” she knows better. But does age and motherhood disentangle anti-Blackness from someone’s core? It does not. Mena and Lozado are proof-positive it does not, because it takes a process of birthing yourself anew to address and eradicate this structural ill.

#Dear Erica Mena #You Can’t Co-Opt Black Culture & Hate Black Women #anti blackness #white washing #latinex lies #white privilege #white skin convenience

[sorchanitua]

University of Texas-Rio Grande Assistant/Associate Professorship in the School of Interdisciplinary Programs and Community Engagement (SIPCE)/ College of Liberal Arts (CLA)

Deadline: September 24 (hard deadline) Length/Track: Tenured, tenure track Description: “Preferred areas of expertise include but are not limited to: the impact of environmental and ecological disasters on Mexican American, Hispanic, Latinx, AfroLatinidad, and/or Indigenous communities; climate change and migration; environmental and health disparities in North/Central America and/or the…

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[emperorbigdaddydrip]

The News of The People - Episode #164: "UGA CARIBSA + UGA HSA + UGA Ballrooms = Bachata Workshop" Here's a Word From the UGA Caribbean Student Association (@ugacaribsa ) : "Another collab 👀. Join us along with @hsaatuga and @ugaballroom for Afrolatinidad: Bachata Workshop! It is February 28th at 8pm in Adkinkra Hall." Thank you guys so much for you time! Make sure you pull up to the YouTube Channel (“Zachariah White”) to check out the good stuff! Social Media Links: Facebook - Zachariah White Link: https://www.facebook.com/NerdySuperman/ Twitter - @PS3XBOX360Game1 Link: https://twitter.com/PS3XBOX360Game1 NEW Instagram - KingBigDaddyDrip Link: https://www.instagram.com/kingbigdaddydrip/ Snapchat - King Senor Blanco (drpolitician) SoundCloud - Big Daddy Drip Link: https://soundcloud.com/zachariah-white-251981857 Spotify - Zachariah White or "The Royal High Table" Link: https://open.spotify.com/show/5S5V9z2JP5w1UNLbCPhYZT Anchor - Zachariah White or "The Royal High Table" Link: https://anchor.fm/zachariah-white #zachariahwhite #ZachariahTrevonWhite #kingwhite #emperorwhite #theblueempire #blueempire #BigDaddyDrip #KingBigDaddyDrip #EmperorBigDaddyDrip #thenewsofthepeople #TNOTP #thejuiceneverstopsdripping

#zachariahwhite #zachariahtrevonwhite #kingwhite #emperorwhite #bigdaddydrip #👑🤴bigdaddydrip💦💦💦 #kingbigdaddydrip #emperorbigdaddydrip #blueempire #theblueempire #tnotp #thenewsofthepeople #thejuiceneverstopsdripping

[mayazazhil]

#afrolatinidad #afrolatina #afrolatinas #mujeres #latino #latinoamerica #victoria santa cruz #mamá Tingó #julia lopez #sara gomez #virginia brindis de salas #peru #mexico #cuba #uruguay #republica dominicana #historia negra #herencia negra #black history month #mes de la historia negra

[musclemikecantprotectya]

NEGRO: Finding Identity / Dash Harris

#obsessed with these interviews since 2012 #aisha’s was one of the first inspirations for my graduate thesis #afrolatinidad #costa rica #panama #colombia #peru #puerto rico #dominican republic #latin america #nyc #africa #black lives matter #afrolatinx #blm

[gekadesignz]

In spite of it all, I will press forward. Http://Etsy.com/shop/Gekadesignz #womanentrepreneurs #selfmade #riselikephoenix #selflove #cbdheals #latina #latinaaf #itstartswitheme #iwillheal #empath #thickgirlswinning #boricua #boricuaart #blackart #afrolatina #afrolatinidad #afroboricua #blackqueen #fibromyalgiawarrior #artofinstagram #blackbusiness #puertorico #puertoricanart #femalebusinessowners #selflove #culturalart #artforthegram #curveegirlz #makeithappenagain https://www.instagram.com/p/CGUrJNnB3TI/?igshid=vj7lozkadtvx

#womanentrepreneurs #selfmade #riselikephoenix #selflove #cbdheals #latina #latinaaf #itstartswitheme #iwillheal #empath #thickgirlswinning #boricua #boricuaart #blackart #afrolatina #afrolatinidad #afroboricua #blackqueen #fibromyalgiawarrior #artofinstagram #blackbusiness #puertorico #puertoricanart #femalebusinessowners #culturalart #artforthegram #curveegirlz #makeithappenagain

[kelvinmedina]

Animation from my Afrolatinidad project

#animation #graphic design #visual design #afrolatinidad

[quisqueyameetsborinken]

#latinidad #latino #afrolatino #afrolatinidad

[teawithqueenandj]

Queen discussing some of the differences between US slavery and slavery in Latin America and how it affects us today on @thegrapevinetv’s “The Relationship Between The Black & Latinx Community ” episode. Watch it on YouTube now❤️✊🏾💚 • #teawithqj #thegrapevinetv #hearitfresh #afrolatinidad #afrolatinx #afrolatino #latinx #panafrican #afrodescendiente #youtube #womanism #blackfeminism #diaspora #africandiaspora #diasporadical (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/BuJtSrflntc/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1q5d75gd6kqsg

#teawithqj #thegrapevinetv #hearitfresh #afrolatinidad #afrolatinx #afrolatino #latinx #panafrican #afrodescendiente #youtube #womanism #blackfeminism #diaspora #africandiaspora #diasporadical

[cartermagazine]

The Incomparable Celia Cruz… Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso was born in 1925 in Barrio Santos Suarez in Havana, one of 4 children. In a career that spanned six decades, Celia became the “Queen of Salsa,” and was central to the genre’s rising popularity. Celia was a true pioneer of AfroLatinidad, focusing on the African elements of her identity (music, lyrics and dress) at a time when it was not popular to do so. In 1974, Celia was one of a group of artists including B.B. King, James Brown, The Spinners, Bill Withers and Miriam Makeba that performed in Kinshasa, Zaire alongside top local groups. The concert was part of a three day festival, “Zaire ’74,” the brainchild of South African trumpeter High Masekela. The performance was supposed to precede the famous boxing match “Rumble in the Jungle” between George Foreman and Muhammed Ali. Just before the concert was scheduled to begin, Foreman injured his eye. The bout was pushed back six weeks, but the Show went on – and was brilliantly documented in the powerful film, “Soul Power.” CARTER™️ Magazine carter-mag.com #wherehistoryandhiphopmeet #historyandhiphop365 #cartermagazine #carter #celiacruz #blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #history #staywoke #afrolatina https://www.instagram.com/p/Chovisnuv7g/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#wherehistoryandhiphopmeet #historyandhiphop365 #cartermagazine #carter #celiacruz #blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #history #staywoke #afrolatina

[laotracaralatina-blog]

Listen, I don’t even wear makeup (nothing against it, I just suck) but I’ve always, faithfully watched Monica aka MonicaStyleMuse’s makeup tutorials on youtube because not only is she beyond talented, funny and honest but she’s such an important representation for black women and specifically for Afro Latinas. When I first discovered Monica more than a year ago, I was so emotional! She’s everything I ever wanted to see on the internet as a little girl and can’t even imagine how important it is for young teenage girls/boys to follow her for makeup and all. On top of the bomb makeup tutorials, like any Latino, Monica is so drowned in family and proud of it, includes videos on her abuelita and her mom. She speaks Spanish and English in her videos to make it easy for both english and spanish speaking viewers which is so amazing. She does it all. Now what I love her for the most though is how she never stays shut on her blackness, her pride in being a dark skinned goddess and setting such a good example/representation for our little blatinas.

I’m a little late in watching this video, but I was stalking Monica as usual and peeped her response video to Amara La Negra’s interview on The Breakfast Club that I’m pretty sure we’ve all seen and I hope angered you guys as much as it infuriated me. I remember Monica posting that she’ll be making a response video, so here it is. Just thought I’d share since Monica’s response to the whole situation is so important as another black Dominicana, and whenever she speaks on Afro Latinidad, her childhood struggles that still appear today, it hits me so deep in my heart because I can’t even imagine how it must be to be not only black and Latina but a dark skinned black latina. Being Afro Latina, being black in any way possible we have no other choice but to face ignorance in our lifetimes but also being aware that I’m lightskin and “racially ambiguous”, I just can’t even imagine, I salute Monica and Amara La Negra for holding their own so well against the hatred and ignorance on Afro Latinidad with the platforms they have. Honestly, I don’t know how much patience I would have on tv or youtube (haha). I look up to these beautiful women so much! Hoping one day I can feature Monica on La Otra Cara Latina. 

Check Monica Style Muse on youtube and instagram, same social media handle for both. 

Tomorrow the posts on influential/notable Afro Latinos in history will be back. Stay tuned. 

Besitos!

Priscilla

#monicastylemuse #dominicana #dominican #dominican republic #afro dominican #Afro-Latino #afro latino #afrolatina #afro latina #afro latinx #latinx #latino #latina #latinidad #afrolatinidad #African Diaspora #black history month #the breakfast club #Amara La Negra #black is beautiful #beauty #blog #blatina