{"id":49262,"date":"2016-09-30T01:18:19","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T01:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49262"},"modified":"2016-09-30T01:19:57","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T01:19:57","slug":"afro-latinos-have-a-well-deserved-place-at-the-new-national-museum-of-african-american-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49262","title":{"rendered":"Afro-Latinos Have a Well-Deserved Place at the New National Museum of African American History"},"content":{"rendered":"

Afro-Latinos Have a Well-Deserved Place at the New National Museum of African American History<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Remezcla<\/a>
\n2016-09-27<\/p>\n

Yara Sim\u00f3n<\/strong><\/a>, Trending Editor<\/p>\n

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This weekend marked the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture<\/a>. After Rep. John Lewis<\/a> and others spent decades battling Congress for funding, the museum opened its doors on Sunday from 7 a.m. to midnight, according to the New York Times<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0It\u2019s a celebration of the black community\u2019s contributions to the United States, but it also highlights the injustices faced by an often marginalized group. More than anything, it\u2019s crucial to our understanding of our national identity.\u00a0The museum comes at a time when racist policing has taken center stage, and just months before the first black president of the United States steps down.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, President Barack Obama<\/a> helped inaugurate the museum. He stood in front of\u00a0thousands and repeated Langston Hughes\u2019<\/a> words, \u201cI too, am America.\u201d \u201cAfrican American history is not somehow separate than the American story,\u201d he said according to the Washington Post<\/em><\/a>. \u201cIt is not the underside of the American story. It is central to the American story.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 400,000 square-foot museum sits on the National Mall<\/a> and features more than 36,000 artifacts that aim to explore all parts of blackness. While the intersection between black and Latino identities aren\u2019t always acknowledged, it\u2019s an important part of both groups. The\u00a0National Museum of African American History and Culture doesn\u2019t ignore the Afro-Latino experience. Check out a few ways they\u2019re being included in African-American history below:…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Afro-Latinos Have a Well-Deserved Place at the New National Museum of African American History Remezcla 2016-09-27 Yara Sim\u00f3n, Trending Editor This weekend marked the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. After Rep. John Lewis and others spent decades battling Congress for funding, the museum opened its doors on Sunday from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,459,14646,8,20],"tags":[25027,19464,20576],"class_list":["post-49262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-history","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-national-museum-of-african-american-history-and-culture","tag-remezcla","tag-yara-simon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49262","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=49262"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49264,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49262\/revisions\/49264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}