{"id":41289,"date":"2015-06-04T14:33:28","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T14:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41289"},"modified":"2015-06-04T14:33:28","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T14:33:28","slug":"10-afro-puerto-ricans-everyone-should-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41289","title":{"rendered":"10 Afro-Puerto Ricans Everyone Should Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/larespuestamedia.com\/black-boricua-10\/\" target=\"_blank\">10 Afro-Puerto Ricans Everyone Should Know<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/larespuestamedia.com\" target=\"_blank\">La Respuesta: A magazine to (Re)Imagine Boricua Diaspora<\/a><br \/>\n2015-06-03<\/p>\n<p><em>La Respuesta<\/em> magazine is dedicated to both resurrecting lost history and highlighting marginalized communities <em>within<\/em> our \u201c<em>gran familia puertorrique\u00f1a<\/em>\u201d. <em>Afrodescendientes boricuas<\/em> is one such community, who are, at best \u2013 forgotten or ignored \u2013 and at worst \u2013 exoticized, feared, or even hated. So, with pride and determination, we humbly compiled a list of 10 \u201cBlack <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Puerto_Ricans\" target=\"_blank\">Boricuas<\/a>\u201d we think have impacted our history and identities.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there are many, many more. You can find some Afro-Boricuas in our list \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/larespuestamedia.com\/20-pr-women\/\" target=\"_blank\">20 Puerto Rican Women Everyone Should Know<\/a>\u201d (we did not reproduce them here so as to give room to name others). For the sake of space and capacity, we can only give you a taste \u2013 but let\u2019s start a dialogue. Please, share with us the names of other Afro-Puerto Ricans you may know! <em>\u00a1Qu\u00e9 Viva Puerto Rico Negro!<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/larespuestamedia.com\/black-boricua-10\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 Afro-Puerto Ricans Everyone Should Know La Respuesta: A magazine to (Re)Imagine Boricua Diaspora 2015-06-03 La Respuesta magazine is dedicated to both resurrecting lost history and highlighting marginalized communities within our \u201cgran familia puertorrique\u00f1a\u201d. Afrodescendientes boricuas is one such community, who are, at best \u2013 forgotten or ignored \u2013 and at worst \u2013 exoticized, feared, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,21,8,20],"tags":[20142,20141,2654],"class_list":["post-41289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-latincarib","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-la-respuesta","tag-la-respuesta-a-magazine-to-reimagine-boricua-diaspora","tag-puerto-rico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}