{"id":35964,"date":"2014-03-03T04:37:12","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T04:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=35964"},"modified":"2014-03-03T04:37:12","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T04:37:12","slug":"afro-latinos-mixed-identity-can-leave-them-out-of-the-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=35964","title":{"rendered":"Afro Latinos’ Mixed Identity Can Leave Them Out of the Mix"},"content":{"rendered":"

Afro Latinos’ Mixed Identity Can Leave Them Out of the Mix<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

NBC News<\/a>
\n2014-02-27<\/p>\n

Patricia Guadalupe<\/strong> and Suzanne Gamboa<\/strong><\/p>\n

Afro Latino Marco Davis laughed when he recalled the lengths he went to keep in touch with black and Latino alumni groups when he graduated from Yale University.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne year I would put down that I was Hispanic so I could keep in touch with the Latino groups on campus that I was involved with, and another year I would put down black, so I could get their information. I would alternate because I wasn\u2019t able to put down that I belonged to both,” said Davis, 43, who has a Jamaican father and a Mexican mother. “The university said they didn\u2019t have it built in to their computers to check off more than one box at a time, and I had to do just one.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like Davis, other Afro Latino Americans feel they straddle two communities, each with a distinct heritage and history celebrated in the U.S. eight months apart. Black History Month comes to a close Friday and Hispanic Heritage Month begins in mid-September.<\/p>\n

Black Latinos say there is little understanding of their mixed heritage, and little knowledge of the history of the importation of slaves by Spanish-speaking countries of which many, though not all, are descendants.<\/p>\n

Yet growing racial pride and a move to a more multiracial society with changing demographics are helping this group stake a claim to being both black and Latino…<\/p>\n

…Filmmaker Dash Harris, who is of Panamanian descent, hopes to bring more exposure to the Afro Latino experience though a documentary series, Negro<\/em><\/a>. Harris said the work grew from her own frustrations.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was exhausted trying to explain who I am,\u201d Harris said. \u201cI\u2019m not here to convince anyone about their African ancestry because that\u2019s a fact. It\u2019s about educating the next generation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Afro Latina Sarita Copeland Singh, a Washington lawyer married to a Trinidadian with Indian roots, said she sees change afoot.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe definitely need to hear and learn more about Afro Latinos so that it won\u2019t seem so unusual,\u201d said Singh, 30, who is of Panamanian descent. \u201cMy young daughter already moves easily between both worlds.\u201d<\/p>\n

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