{"id":43082,"date":"2015-10-05T18:08:53","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T18:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43082"},"modified":"2015-10-05T18:08:53","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T18:08:53","slug":"garifuna-the-young-black-latino-exodus-youve-never-heard-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43082","title":{"rendered":"Garifuna: The Young Black Latino Exodus You\u2019ve Never Heard About"},"content":{"rendered":"

Garifuna: The Young Black Latino Exodus You\u2019ve Never Heard About<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Fusion<\/a>
\n2014-06-04<\/p>\n

Jasmine Garsd<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Honduran<\/a> migrants passing through Mexico<\/a> often carry only the bare essentials: cash, some clothes and a cell phone, if they can afford one.<\/p>\n

Gustavo Morales stands out among the migrant population here in Tequixquiac<\/a>, a hot, dusty little town right outside Mexico City<\/a>. The 21-year-old is traveling with an African drum that he plays during his downtime along the journey.<\/a><\/p>\n

The drum isn\u2019t the only reason he stands out. He\u2019s a black migrant in a country where few people are of African descent…<\/p>\n

…As Hondurans are being forced to flee their country, Garifuna<\/a>, who have historically been shunned by society, are increasingly being uprooted from their homes on the Caribbean coast.<\/p>\n

Garifuna (\u201cGarinagu\u201d in the Garifuna language<\/a>) are the descendants of slaves brought from Central Africa<\/a> and indigenous Caribbean people, including Arawaks<\/a> and Island Caribs<\/a>. They speak a distinct language that mixes all three influences…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Garifuna: The Young Black Latino Exodus You\u2019ve Never Heard About Fusion 2014-06-04 Jasmine Garsd Honduran migrants passing through Mexico often carry only the bare essentials: cash, some clothes and a cell phone, if they can afford one. Gustavo Morales stands out among the migrant population here in Tequixquiac, a hot, dusty little town right outside […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,8],"tags":[19052,21287,21288,1034,14785],"class_list":["post-43082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-media-archive","tag-fusion","tag-garifunas","tag-gustavo-morales","tag-honduras","tag-jasmine-garsd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43082","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=43082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43083,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43082\/revisions\/43083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}