Tag: William Garcia

  • African American Exceptionalism and the Truth Behind the Rage over Zoe Saldaña Playing Nina Simone Upliftt: Latinos in Film, TV and Theater 2015-11-09 William Garcia In a recent article from the Huffington Post, Zoe Saldaña talks about the Nina Simone biopic that has been controversial all over the Black blogospheres. Saldaña said: “the people behind…

  • Designing Afro-Latino Curriculum for Self-Determination Zambombazo 2015-10-23 Zachary & Betsy Jones Introduction During the 2015 Afrolatino Festival of New York in a panel discussion on the contextualization of blackness, William Garcia briefly mentioned working to implement Afro-Latino curriculum in schools, which greatly intrigued us. Thus, we reached out to him to learn more. His amazingly…

  • White Puerto Rican Migration and the Effacement of Blackness UPLIFTT: United People for Latinos in Film, TV and Theater 2015-02-13 William Garcia t was August 2009 when I was admitted to the University of Puerto Rico in Rio Piedras and that what was when I first saw the amalgamation of a new breed of Puerto…