{"id":47784,"date":"2016-06-19T00:03:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T00:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47784"},"modified":"2016-06-19T00:31:40","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T00:31:40","slug":"9-famous-faces-on-the-struggles-and-beauty-of-being-afro-latino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47784","title":{"rendered":"9 Famous Faces On The Struggles And Beauty Of Being Afro-Latino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/9-famous-faces-on-the-struggles-and-beauty-of-being-afro-latino_us_56c3a3cee4b08ffac126ecd9\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>9 Famous Faces On The Struggles And Beauty Of Being Afro-Latino<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/9-famous-faces-on-the-struggles-and-beauty-of-being-afro-latino_us_56c3a3cee4b08ffac126ecd9\" target=\"_blank\">The Huffington Post<\/a><br \/>\n2016-02-18<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CaritoJuliette\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Carolina Moreno<\/strong><\/a>, Editor<\/p>\n<p>Afro-Latinos face many challenges when it comes to identity, particularly when people refuse to believe that being Black and Latino aren\u2019t mutually exclusive experiences.<\/p>\n<p>The Latino identity denotes an ethnicity, which means that Latinos exist in every color and race imaginable \u2014 and explaining the difference between race and ethnicity can be quite a cumbersome task to take on on a daily basis. And yet, many Afro-Latinos are often forced to do so after being told they\u2019re not \u201cLatino enough\u201d or being asked to choose between being Black and Latino.<\/p>\n<p>While many Latino actors have been brutally honest about the limitations that come with working in a predominately white industry, Afro-Latino celebrities often face even tougher challenges in Hollywood and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at what <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laz_Alonso\" target=\"_blank\">Laz Alonso<\/a> (\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Mysteries_of_Laura\" target=\"_blank\">The Mysteries of Laura<\/a>\u201d), <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tatyana_Ali\" target=\"_blank\">Tatyana Ali<\/a> (\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Fresh_Prince_of_Bel-Air\" target=\"_blank\">Fresh Prince of Bel-Air<\/a>\u201d) and more famous Afro-Latinos have said about being Black and Latino&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/9-famous-faces-on-the-struggles-and-beauty-of-being-afro-latino_us_56c3a3cee4b08ffac126ecd9\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9 Famous Faces On The Struggles And Beauty Of Being Afro-Latino The Huffington Post 2016-02-18 Carolina Moreno, Editor Afro-Latinos face many challenges when it comes to identity, particularly when people refuse to believe that being Black and Latino aren\u2019t mutually exclusive experiences. The Latino identity denotes an ethnicity, which means that Latinos exist in every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,14646,8,20],"tags":[22401,19651,24218,24216,10108,24220,24219,24217,24214,22408,12774,24215,2425],"class_list":["post-47784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-carolina-j-moreno","tag-carolina-moreno","tag-christina-milian","tag-gina-torres","tag-huffington-post","tag-judy-reyes","tag-la-la-anthony","tag-lauren-velez","tag-laz-alonso","tag-selenis-leyva","tag-soledad-obrien","tag-tatyana-ali","tag-the-huffington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47784","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=47784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47785,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47784\/revisions\/47785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}