{"id":41363,"date":"2015-06-12T00:54:07","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T00:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41363"},"modified":"2015-06-12T00:54:07","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T00:54:07","slug":"afro-latinas-finding-a-place-to-belong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41363","title":{"rendered":"Afro-Latinas: Finding A Place To Belong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/newlatina.net\/afro-latinas-finding-a-place-to-belong\/\" target=\"_blank\">Afro-Latinas: Finding A Place To Belong<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newlatina.net\" target=\"_blank\">New Latina<\/a><br \/>\n2012-03-12<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/latinaish.com\/about-latinaish\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tracy L\u00f3pez<\/a><\/strong>, Editor-in-Chief<br \/>\n<em>Latinaish: Una Gringa Biena Latina<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Identity<\/strong> &#8211; It\u2019s something every human being wrestles with at some time in their life \u2013 some more than others. For <em>Afro-Latinas<\/em>, self identifying can be especially difficult. The sense of ignored, unrecognized and invisible, is prevalent among those who identify as Afro-Latinas. The fact that the word itself, Afro-Latino, does not yet appear in most dictionaries only lends credence to the voices calling for recognition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today we introduce you to three voices of Afro-Latinas.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ivyfarguheson\" target=\"_blank\">Ivy Farguheson<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 A Social Services reporter for the Muncie Star Press, Muncie, Indiana.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Eusebia Aquino-Hughes<\/strong> \u2013 Nurse by profession. Blogs at <a href=\"http:\/\/streetlatino.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Street Latino<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vianessa Casta\u00f1os<\/strong> \u2013 Professional actress. Website: Vianessa.com. Twitter: @Vianessa.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Defining Afro-Latina<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo me, being Afro-Latina means that I am a part of the African diaspora in Latin America, more specifically, my parents were a part of the African diaspora in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Costa_Rica\" target=\"_blank\">Costa Rica<\/a>. This identity gives me the privilege of identifying with the Spanish aspects of Latino culture (such as the foods, the language, the immigrant experience in America) along with the African flavors that have made part of the Latino experience different than those who aren\u2019t Afro-Latino(a) (the music, the dancing, the slave\/worker history)\u2026\u201d \u2013 <strong>Ivy Farguheson<\/strong> \u201cI self-identify as [a] proud Afro-Latina of Puerto Rican\/African [descent]. It is an honor for me and many in my family to respect \u2026our African roots\u2026and [I] hope that our Latino community does the same\u2026Our proud African roots have given contributions to our music, foods, arts, [and] language\u2026\u201d \u2013 <strong>Eusebia Aquino-Hughes<\/strong> \u201cAn Afro-Latina is just what the name implies, someone of Latin (or Hispanic) descent that has a predominantly African ancestry\u2026I usually just describe myself as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dominican_people_(Dominican_Republic)\" target=\"_blank\">Dominican<\/a> or Afro-Caribbean. I\u2019ll occasionally identify with Afro-Latina, but never just \u2018Latina\u2019\u2026 I am 100% Dominican of West African, French, Spanish and Chinese decent. Rumor has it that there is some <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ta%C3%ADno\" target=\"_blank\">Taino<\/a> blood in us as well.\u201d \u2013 <strong>Vianessa Casta\u00f1os<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/newlatina.net\/afro-latinas-finding-a-place-to-belong\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afro-Latinas: Finding A Place To Belong New Latina 2012-03-12 Tracy L\u00f3pez, Editor-in-Chief Latinaish: Una Gringa Biena Latina Identity &#8211; It\u2019s something every human being wrestles with at some time in their life \u2013 some more than others. For Afro-Latinas, self identifying can be especially difficult. The sense of ignored, unrecognized and invisible, is prevalent among [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,13743,14646,8,20,25],"tags":[20230,20229,20233,20232,20231],"class_list":["post-41363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-interviews","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-eusebia-aquino-hughes","tag-ivy-farguheson","tag-new-latina","tag-tracy-lopez","tag-vianessa-castanos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41363","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=41363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}