{"id":51868,"date":"2017-02-26T01:39:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T01:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51868"},"modified":"2017-02-26T20:35:15","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T20:35:15","slug":"rosa-clemente-how-i-came-to-know-and-appreciate-my-blackness-as-an-afro-latina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51868","title":{"rendered":"Rosa Clemente: How I Came to Know and Appreciate My Blackness As An Afro-Latina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atlantablackstar.com\/2017\/02\/23\/rosa-clemente-how-came-know-appreciate-blackness-afro-latina\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Rosa Clemente: How I Came to Know and Appreciate My Blackness As An Afro-Latina<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atlantablackstar.com\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Black Star<\/a><br \/>\n2017-02-23<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rosaclemente.net\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Rosa Clemente<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atlantablackstar.com\/2017\/02\/23\/rosa-clemente-how-came-know-appreciate-blackness-afro-latina\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/atlantablackstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/rosa-3.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><em>Rosa Alicia Clemente<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<p>In 1993, I was a student at the State University of New York-Albany when <a href=\"https:\/\/tisch.nyu.edu\/art-public-policy\/faculty\/marta-moreno-vega\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Marta Moreno Vega<\/a> came to speak on our campus. Until that evening, I had never heard the term Afro-Latina. In fact, I had just learned what it meant when someone said \u201cAfrican descendant.\u201d See, even though I had grown up in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City\" target=\"_blank\">NYC<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Westchester_County,_New_York\" target=\"_blank\">Westchester County<\/a>, respectively, and completely embraced and understood that I was Puerto Rican, it was not until I went to college that I began to get to know who I <em>truly<\/em>\u00a0was.<\/p>\n<p>The year before, I had joined the Albany State University Black Alliance and, through my involvement with peers who were racially and politically conscious, I was exposed to the true history of <em>mi gente<\/em> (my people). This awakening of my racial consciousness would lead me to become an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Africana_studies\" target=\"_blank\">Africana Studies<\/a> major and, to this day, I have been a scholar-activist in the field of Black studies. For me, it became clear that I was an African descendant, so I began to devour anything and everything I could, not only to learn the truth of who I was but also to confront the lies I had been told by my teachers, family and TV&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/atlantablackstar.com\/2017\/02\/23\/rosa-clemente-how-came-know-appreciate-blackness-afro-latina\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1993, I was a student at the State University of New York-Albany when Dr. Marta Moreno Vega came to speak on our campus. Until that evening, I had never heard the term Afro-Latina. In fact, I had just learned what it meant when someone said \u201cAfrican descendant.\u201d See, even though I had grown up in NYC and Westchester County, respectively, and completely embraced and understood that I was Puerto Rican, it was not until I went to college that I began to get to know who I TRULY was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,14646,8,20],"tags":[17213,16253,9847],"class_list":["post-51868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-atlanta-black-star","tag-rosa-alicia-clemente","tag-rosa-clemente"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51868","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=51868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51879,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51868\/revisions\/51879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}