{"id":46443,"date":"2016-04-02T20:25:23","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T20:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46443"},"modified":"2016-04-02T20:25:23","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T20:25:23","slug":"6-afro-latinos-open-up-about-what-it-means-to-be-black-and-latino%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46443","title":{"rendered":"6 Afro-Latinos Open Up About What It Means To Be Black And Latino\ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/6-afro-latinos-open-up-about-what-it-means-to-be-black-and-latino_us_56f18477e4b03a640a6be47c\" target=\"_blank\">6 Afro-Latinos Open Up About What It Means To Be Black And Latino<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/latino-voices\/\" target=\"_blank\">Latino Voices<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Huffington Post<\/a><br \/>\n2016-03-23<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CaritoJuliette\" target=\"_blank\">Carolina Moreno<\/a><\/strong>, Editor<\/p>\n<p><em>Watch them explain why they\u2019re both and they\u2019re proud!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/aleichia-williams\/too-black-to-be-latin-too_b_8141150.html\" target=\"_blank\">Too black to be Latino and too Latino to be black<\/a> is a feeling many Afro-Latinos know too well \u2014 but the reality is that these two identities <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/9-famous-faces-on-the-struggles-and-beauty-of-being-afro-latino_us_56c3a3cee4b08ffac126ecd9\" target=\"_blank\">are far from mutually exclusive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Not only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/why-you-should-never-assume-that-a-black-person-cant-be-latino_us_564393f4e4b060377347619c\" target=\"_blank\">is it possible to be both black and Latino<\/a>, it\u2019s also fairly common within the Latino community. In the United States <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/finally-a-survey-dives-into-the-complexities-of-latino-identity_us_56d8a2aae4b0ffe6f8e899e2\" target=\"_blank\">24 percent of Latinos<\/a> self-identify as Afro-Latino, according to survey results the Pew Research Center released in March.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HuffPostLatinoVoices\/?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">HuffPost Latino Voices<\/a> asked six Afro-Latinos to share what it really means to grow-up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/dascha-polanco-breaks-down-why-its-possible-to-be-black-and-latino_us_56e81688e4b065e2e3d73ab5\" target=\"_blank\">black and Latino<\/a>. Because as writer Janel Martinez explains, it can be quite complicated at first&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article and watch the video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/6-afro-latinos-open-up-about-what-it-means-to-be-black-and-latino_us_56f18477e4b03a640a6be47c\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6 Afro-Latinos Open Up About What It Means To Be Black And Latino Latino Voices The Huffington Post 2016-03-23 Carolina Moreno, Editor Watch them explain why they\u2019re both and they\u2019re proud! Too black to be Latino and too Latino to be black is a feeling many Afro-Latinos know too well \u2014 but the reality is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14646,8,20,842],"tags":[22401,19651,10108,23408,17462,2425],"class_list":["post-46443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-videos","tag-carolina-j-moreno","tag-carolina-moreno","tag-huffington-post","tag-janel-martinez","tag-latino-voices","tag-the-huffington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46443","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=46443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46444,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46443\/revisions\/46444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}