Tag: Yvette Modestin

  • Though positioned as an all-inclusive cultural identity, Latinidad has historically proven to be a term beneficial to a select few. Gauging one’s proximity to whiteness – gender, sexual preference and able-bodied privileges included – Latinidad incites the question, who is included and, ultimately, excluded from its definition?

  • Women Warriors of the Afro-Latina Diaspora Arte Público Press 2012-04-30 248 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-55885-746-9 Edited by: Marta Moreno Vega, Alba Marinieves and Yvette Modestin Afro-Latina women relate their personal stories and advocacy for racial equality “My housewife mother turned into a raging warrior woman when the principal of my elementary school questioned whether her…

  • “The Afro-Latin@ Reader” focuses attention on a large, vibrant, yet oddly invisible community in the United States: people of African descent from Latin America and the Caribbean.