{"id":48170,"date":"2016-07-10T01:20:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-10T01:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48170"},"modified":"2016-07-10T01:20:37","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T01:20:37","slug":"nyc-afrolatino-fest-comes-at-an-important-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48170","title":{"rendered":"NYC AfroLatino Fest Comes at an Important Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soundsandcolours.com\/news\/nyc-afrolatino-fest-comes-at-an-important-time-33179\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>NYC AfroLatino Fest Comes at an Important Time<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soundsandcolours.com\" target=\"_blank\">Sounds and Colours<\/a><br \/>\n2016-07-05<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ginavergel\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Gina Vergel<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soundsandcolours.com\/news\/nyc-afrolatino-fest-comes-at-an-important-time-33179\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/soundsandcolours.com\/static\/2016\/07\/AF-2016-updated-flyer-copy.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>It seems the fourth edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afrolatinofestnyc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">AfroLatinoFest<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City\" target=\"_blank\">New York City<\/a> comes at a crucial time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A survey by the Pew Research Center, released in March, points to a disconnect in how some Afro-Latinos living in the United States report their race. It <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2016\/03\/01\/afro-latino-a-deeply-rooted-identity-among-u-s-hispanics\/\" target=\"_blank\">found<\/a> that while 24 percent of U.S.-based Latinos identify as Afro-Latino, just 18 percent of that group reports its race as \u201cBlack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to an article in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colorlines.com\/articles\/survey-us-afro-latinos-more-likely-identify-white-black\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Colorlines<\/em><\/a>, \u201cwhen asked directly about their race, only 18% of Afro-Latinos identified their race or one of their races as black. In fact, higher shares of Afro-Latinos identified as white alone or white in combination with another race (39%) or volunteered that their race or one of their races was Hispanic (24%). Only 9% identified as mixed race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And so Afro-Latino Fest, taking place from the 8th to the 10th of July, is offering a series of intellectually engaging panels, documentary screenings, and keynote speakers about AfroLatinidad, along with music and food, of course&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/soundsandcolours.com\/news\/nyc-afrolatino-fest-comes-at-an-important-time-33179\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYC AfroLatino Fest Comes at an Important Time Sounds and Colours 2016-07-05 Gina Vergel It seems the fourth edition of AfroLatinoFest in New York City comes at a crucial time. A survey by the Pew Research Center, released in March, points to a disconnect in how some Afro-Latinos living in the United States report their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,33,14646,8,20],"tags":[24445,24444,24443],"class_list":["post-48170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-census","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-afro-latino-festival","tag-gina-vergel","tag-sounds-and-colours"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48170","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=48170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48171,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48170\/revisions\/48171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}