{"id":54441,"date":"2017-07-10T02:57:39","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T02:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54441"},"modified":"2017-07-10T02:57:39","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T02:57:39","slug":"my-skin-is-black-my-name-is-latino-afrolatinidad-as-a-layered-blackness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54441","title":{"rendered":"My Skin Is Black, My Name Is Latino (AfroLatinidad As a Layered Blackness)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@thejlv\/my-skin-is-black-my-name-is-latino-afrolatinidad-as-a-layered-blackness-eb592b69ae12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>My Skin Is Black, My Name Is Latino (AfroLatinidad As a Layered Blackness)<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Medium<\/a><br \/>\n2017-07-06<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheJLV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Jose Vilson<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>New York, New York<\/em><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"552\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@thejlv\/my-skin-is-black-my-name-is-latino-afrolatinidad-as-a-layered-blackness-eb592b69ae12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-images-1.medium.com\/max\/1600\/1*bKlv824OalLAYO75Gt7hQw.jpeg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>A younger me during one of my last visits to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bas%C3%ADlica_Catedral_Nuestra_Se%C3%B1ora_de_la_Altagracia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bas\u00edlica Catedral Nuestra Se\u00f1ora de la Altagracia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dominican_Republic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dominican Republic<\/a><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>I love jumping into cabs in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Washington_Heights,_Manhattan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Heights<\/a> for two reasons: the driver is almost always Dominican (as in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dominican_Republic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dominican Republic<\/a>) and the driver is almost always surprised I can speak Spanish. He can have similar facial features, see the waves in my curly hair, and listen to the same music I have on my smartphone. It never matters. The second question is, \u201cWait, you\u2019re Dominican? What barrio is your mom from?\u201d I tell them the barrio and the cross-streets, and they get vexed. We exchange pleasantries, barbs about the way our music used to be, and elongated vowels before they finally drop me off at my destination.<\/p>\n<p>Something about my blackness wouldn\u2019t allow them to embrace theirs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@thejlv\/my-skin-is-black-my-name-is-latino-afrolatinidad-as-a-layered-blackness-eb592b69ae12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It never matters. The second question is, \u201cWait, you\u2019re Dominican? What barrio is your mom from?\u201d I tell them the barrio and the cross-streets, and they get vexed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14646,8,20],"tags":[3468,27246,18537],"class_list":["post-54441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-dominican-republic","tag-jose-vilson","tag-medium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54441","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=54441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54442,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54441\/revisions\/54442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}