{"id":44373,"date":"2015-11-29T19:08:34","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T19:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44373"},"modified":"2015-11-29T19:08:41","modified_gmt":"2015-11-29T19:08:41","slug":"afro-latinas-work-for-cultural-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44373","title":{"rendered":"Afro-Latinas Work for Cultural Survival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telesurtv.net\/english\/analysis\/Afro-Latinas-Work-for-Cultural-Survival-20150317-0022.html\" target=\"_blank\">Afro-Latinas Work for Cultural Survival<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telesurtv.net\" target=\"_blank\">teleSUR<\/a><br \/>\n2015-03-20<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mai&#8217;a Williams<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Quito, Ecuador<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In recent years, there has been a resurgence of Afro-Latino youth in the U.S. rooting themselves, their families and their communities in their African heritages as a way to create cultures of resistance to the dominant narratives of colonization and white supremacy.<\/p>\n<p>These movements have been for the most part led by Afro-Latina women who live within the intersections of oppression, gender, class, race, and immigration. They take inspiration from the past, as well as the future. And they work to co-create cultures that can fight against the overwhelming tide of erasure of their own African diasporic existences.The work of embracing Afro-Latino identity is a work for cultural survival and connection.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Census Bureau<\/a> reported that in 2010, 2.5 percent of the 54 million Latinos living in the United States co-identified as black. Many Latinos say that number is a significant undercount. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/newsroom\/releases\/archives\/bios\/nicholas_jones_bio.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nicholas Jones<\/a>, chief of the Bureau&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/topics\/population\/race.html\" target=\"_blank\">Racial Statistics Branch<\/a> said, \u201cI believe that what we\u2019re hearing from the Afro-Latino community is that they do not believe that those numbers accurately illustrate the Afro-Latino community presence in the United States, and that\u2019s the dialogue that we\u2019re having.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the same census, over half of Latinos also identified themselves as white and 36 percent marked themselves as \u201csome other race.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telesurtv.net\/english\/analysis\/Afro-Latinas-Work-for-Cultural-Survival-20150317-0022.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afro-Latinas Work for Cultural Survival teleSUR 2015-03-20 Mai&#8217;a Williams Quito, Ecuador In recent years, there has been a resurgence of Afro-Latino youth in the U.S. rooting themselves, their families and their communities in their African heritages as a way to create cultures of resistance to the dominant narratives of colonization and white supremacy. These movements [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,33,14646,8,20],"tags":[22109,22107,22106,22108,22105],"class_list":["post-44373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-census","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-aurora-ellis","tag-leonardo-reales-jimenez","tag-maia-williams","tag-nathalie-tejada","tag-telesur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44373","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=44373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44374,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44373\/revisions\/44374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}