AfroLatina

plural AfroLatinas

1. alternativeAlternative form of Afro-Latina.

   Through interviewing AfroLatinas like Danyeli, Zuri and Vero are there any conflicts and identity issues that this particular part of the Latinx community faces?

   2021 September 16, For(bes) The Culture, “Paola Ramos On Finding And Defining Latinx In America”, in Forbes, archived from the original on 16 Sep 2021

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   The consistent attention to AfroLatinas’ agency across all the chapters is not superficially empowering; it is attentive to the difficult circumstances in which that agency is asserted, and the tremendous breadth of what agency can look like, from a silent look to coded language and practices to full-throated assertions.

   2022, Rosita Scerbo, Concetta Bondi, “Introduction: Centering Black Women/Challenging Latinidad and Hegemonic Discourses”, in AfroLatinas and LatiNegras: Culture, Identity, and Struggle from an Intersectional Perspective, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 5

   Nonetheless when AfroLatinas are cast as African Americans, the resulting controversy speaks of narratives of authenticity as well as the very small number of roles available to any racialized actor in Hollywood.

   2022, Stine Eckert, Ingrid Bachmann, editors, Reflections on Feminist Communication and Media Scholarship: Theory, Method, Impact, Routledge, →ISBN

comparative more Afrolatina · superlative most Afrolatina

1. alternativeAlternative form of Afro-Latina.

   How is your healing shaped by your identity and experience as Black/Afrolatina, class, sexual orientation/gender expression?

   2022, Wendi S. Williams, editor, WE Matter!: Intersectional Anti-Racist Feminist Interventions with Black Girls and Women, Routledge, →ISBN

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   To analyze these novels outside of an Afrolatino/a framework is to fail to recognize that, by telling the stories of Afrolatina (m)others, Jones and Morrison locate alternative shades of comparison as they innovate New World oral traditions.

   2012, Nicole L. Sparling, “Mothers of Afrolatinidad: Dislocating New World Identities in Latino/a Studies and African American Studies”, in Luz Angélica Kirschner, editor, Expanding Latinidad: An Inter-American Perspective (Josef Raab and Sebastian Thies, editors, Inter-American Studies, volume 5), Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier; Bilingual Press / Editorial Bilingüe, →ISBN, page 174

   Baina Colonial is the colonial bullshit that places Black and Afrolatina women in the bull’s-eye of racialized gendering through both spectacularization as exotic sex objects, and wholesale cultural erasure.

   2020, Jillian Hernandez, Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment, Durham, N.C.; London: Duke University Press, →ISBN

   The subsequent vignette by Dr. Sandra (Chap) Chapman describes Chap’s experience as someone who identifies as Afrolatina and queer, helping readers appreciate how young people in the classroom are constantly negotiating and navigating their own identities.

   2021, Toyin Olabode, “Vignette: This Is What a (Pan)African Feminist Looks Like”, in Omobolade Delano-Oriaran, Marguerite W. Penick, Shemariah J. Arki, Ali Michael, Orinthia Swindell, Eddie Moore Jr., editors, Teaching Beautiful Brilliant Black Girls, Corwin Press, →ISBN, section “Respecting”, part I (“I’ll be bossy and damn proud.”—Rosa Clemente), chapter 20 (Shemariah J. Arki, “Who Are Black Girls? An Intersectional Herstory of Feminism”)

plural Afrolatinas

1. alternativeAlternative form of Afro-Latina.

   The subject position of Afrolatinas is so threatening to the Latinx and Latin American social order that it appears unavailable and therefore unnecessary and invalid.

   2020, Jillian Hernandez, Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment, Durham, N.C.; London: Duke University Press, →ISBN

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   Although she does not self-identify as an Afrolatina, Ursa emerges as a result of Portuguese imperialism and the African slave trade in the New World who reclaims her black heritage as an ally; […]

   2012, Nicole L. Sparling, “Mothers of Afrolatinidad: Dislocating New World Identities in Latino/a Studies and African American Studies”, in Luz Angélica Kirschner, editor, Expanding Latinidad: An Inter-American Perspective (Josef Raab and Sebastian Thies, editors, Inter-American Studies, volume 5), Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier; Bilingual Press / Editorial Bilingüe, →ISBN, page 165

   A case in point is the four-year old^([sic]) Afrolatina in Sandra Chapman and Imani Chapman's “Black Girl on the Playground,” who was playing in a community playground and encountered racial aggression from two white boys, ages 7 and 10.

   2021, Omobolade Delano-Oriaran, Marguerite W. Penick, Shemariah J. Arki, Ali Michael, Orinthia Swindell, Eddie Moore Jr., editors, Teaching Beautiful Brilliant Black Girls, Corwin Press, →ISBN