{"id":54324,"date":"2017-06-28T18:04:17","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T18:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54324"},"modified":"2017-06-28T18:04:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T18:04:17","slug":"the-afro-latino-festival-nyc-celebrates-a-culture-thats-ready-to-be-heard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54324","title":{"rendered":"The Afro-Latino Festival NYC Celebrates A Culture That\u2019s Ready To Be Heard"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Afro-Latino Festival NYC Celebrates A Culture That\u2019s Ready To Be Heard<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Village Voice<\/a>
\n2017-06-27<\/p>\n

Siddhartha Mitter<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nTwo revelers dance at last year\u2019s festival Source: New Visual Collective<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

At 26, Amara La Negra<\/a>, the Dominican-American singer, has a string of energetic tropical-funk hits in Spanish, fierce dance moves, a fashion line, hundreds of thousands of social media followers, and rising star power in her hometown of Miami<\/a> and back in the Dominican Republic<\/a>. But Amara is also Afro-Latina \u2014 a visibly, unapologetically Black woman making her career in worlds where colorism<\/a> still runs rampant, among them the D.R.<\/a> with its social hierarchy and the international Latin entertainment industry. With her dark skin, exuberant Afro, and in-your-face \u201cLa Negra\u201d stage name, Amara is making a point.<\/p>\n

\u201cChange would be more Afro-Latinos in Hollywood<\/a>, more on magazine covers,\u201d Amara says. \u201cIt would be main roles in novelas<\/a>, which we don\u2019t yet have. They\u2019ll cast you to be either a slave, a gangster, or a prostitute. They stereotype us.\u201d Last year, a light-skinned beauty queen put on blackface and butt pads to parody Amara on Dominican TV. \u201cWe\u2019re still a long way [from] seeing big change,\u201d Amara says. \u201cBut we\u2019re being more vocal.\u201d…<\/p>\n

…In New York City<\/a>, the flagship venue for the new cultural reassertion is the Afro-Latino Festival<\/a>, which holds its fifth edition on July 7 and 8. A grassroots project led by Mai-Elka Prado Gil and Amilcar Priestley, a Panamanian couple in Brooklyn<\/a>, it has ballooned since 2013 from an outdoor afternoon party to a two-day international summit gathering musicians, filmmakers, activists, scholars, and partygoers….<\/p>\n

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

In New York City, the flagship venue for the new cultural reassertion is the Afro-Latino Festival, which holds its fifth edition on July 7 and 8. A grassroots project led by Mai-Elka Prado Gil and Amilcar Priestley, a Panamanian couple in Brooklyn, it has ballooned since 2013 from an outdoor afternoon party to a two-day international summit gathering musicians, filmmakers, activists, scholars, and partygoers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,24,14646,8,20],"tags":[27174,27176,27175,1392,27173,11098,601],"class_list":["post-54324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-arts","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-amara-la-negra","tag-amilcar-priestley","tag-mai-elka-prado-gil","tag-music","tag-siddhartha-mitter","tag-the-village-voice","tag-village-voice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54324","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=54324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54325,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54324\/revisions\/54325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}