{"id":48278,"date":"2016-07-15T01:39:17","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T01:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48278"},"modified":"2016-10-26T22:36:44","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T22:36:44","slug":"photos-what-it-means-to-celebrate-afro-latinidad-in-the-time-of-black-lives-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48278","title":{"rendered":"PHOTOS: What It Means to Celebrate Afro-Latinidad in the Time of Black Lives Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/remezcla.com\/lists\/music\/afro-latino-fest-black-lives-matter-photos\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>PHOTOS: What It Means to Celebrate Afro-Latinidad in the Time of Black Lives Matter<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/remezcla.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Remezcla<\/a><br \/>\n2016-07-12<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jabladoraaa\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Isabelia Herrera<\/strong><\/a>, Music Editor<\/p>\n<p>Photography by: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itzelalejandra.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Itzel Alejandra Martinez<\/strong><\/a>, Photo Editor<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/remezcla.com\/lists\/music\/afro-latino-fest-black-lives-matter-photos\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/remezcla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/afro-latino-crowd_music_itzel-1200x480.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.itzelalejandra.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><small>Itzel Alejandra Martinez<\/small><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When <em>Remezcla<\/em> headed to the fourth edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afrolatinofestnyc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">New York City\u2019s Afro-Latino Festival<\/a> this weekend, surrounded by colorful <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dashiki\" target=\"_blank\">dashikis<\/a> and bold <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Lives_Matter\" target=\"_blank\">#BlackLivesMatter<\/a> t-shirts, we were reminded that the political utility of the Afro-Latino label is more urgent than ever. Speaking with festival attendees, families, and musicians, it became clear that celebrating <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/AfroLatinidad\" target=\"_blank\">Afro-Latinidad<\/a> in times of black trauma isn\u2019t about diverting the focus of anti-racist movements, but about highlighting the diversity of black experiences. As the nation reels from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shooting_of_Philando_Castile\" target=\"_blank\">deaths of Philando Castile<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shooting_of_Alton_Sterling\" target=\"_blank\">Alton Sterling<\/a>, and as police violence continues to rattle black and brown communities, Afro-Latinos are uniquely positioned to combat anti-blackness in Latino communities. To that end, we spoke to a group of festival attendees about their Afro-Latinidad in the context of the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Here\u2019s what they had to say&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Red the entire photo-essay <a href=\"http:\/\/remezcla.com\/lists\/music\/afro-latino-fest-black-lives-matter-photos\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHOTOS: What It Means to Celebrate Afro-Latinidad in the Time of Black Lives Matter Remezcla 2016-07-12 Isabelia Herrera, Music Editor Photography by: Itzel Alejandra Martinez, Photo Editor Itzel Alejandra Martinez When Remezcla headed to the fourth edition of New York City\u2019s Afro-Latino Festival this weekend, surrounded by colorful dashikis and bold #BlackLivesMatter t-shirts, we were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,125,14646,8,23674],"tags":[24445,24048,24494,2711,596,147,19464],"class_list":["post-48278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-identitydevelopment","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-social-justice","tag-afro-latino-festival","tag-isabelia-herrera","tag-itzel-alejandra-martinez","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-photography","tag-remezcla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48278","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=48278"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48287,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48278\/revisions\/48287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}