{"id":43291,"date":"2015-10-16T20:28:26","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T20:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43291"},"modified":"2015-10-16T20:28:26","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T20:28:26","slug":"true-colors-charlie-villanueva-and-others-explain-the-afro-latino-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43291","title":{"rendered":"True Colors: Charlie Villanueva and Others Explain the Afro-Latino Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/blog\/onenacion\/post\/_\/id\/1526\/true-colors-charlie-villanueva-and-others-explain-the-afro-latino-experience\" target=\"_blank\">True Colors: Charlie Villanueva and Others Explain the Afro-Latino Experience<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN<\/a><br \/>\n2015-09-10<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charlie_Villanueva\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Villanueva<\/a> knows that life in the United States for many still means being judged by one\u2019s skin color, but he\u2019s not shy about challenging such preconceived ideas, boldly asking if the public can know who he really is by just a surface assessment.<\/p>\n<p>His experience defies easy categorization partly because as an Afro-Latino, Villanueva\u2019s culture is a mix of influences that have shaped him as an individual.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN\u2019s One Nacion takes a closer look at some of the stories that are an integral part of the tapestry of Latino-America.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/blog\/onenacion\/post\/_\/id\/1526\/true-colors-charlie-villanueva-and-others-explain-the-afro-latino-experience\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>True Colors: Charlie Villanueva and Others Explain the Afro-Latino Experience ESPN 2015-09-10 Charlie Villanueva knows that life in the United States for many still means being judged by one\u2019s skin color, but he\u2019s not shy about challenging such preconceived ideas, boldly asking if the public can know who he really is by just a surface [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,20,842],"tags":[21436,9251,7222],"class_list":["post-43291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-usa","category-videos","tag-charlie-villanueva","tag-espn","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43291","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=43291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43292,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43291\/revisions\/43292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}