{"id":58637,"date":"2019-07-31T20:28:38","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T20:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58637"},"modified":"2019-07-31T20:32:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T20:32:02","slug":"when-it-comes-to-latinidad-who-is-included-and-who-isnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58637","title":{"rendered":"When it Comes to Latinidad, Who Is Included and Who Isn\u2019t?"},"content":{"rendered":"

When it Comes to Latinidad, Who Is Included and Who Isn\u2019t?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Remezcla<\/a>
\n2019-07-30<\/p>\n

Janel Martinez<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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At the top of November 2018, an Instagram meme created by writer Alan Pelaez Lopez went viral<\/a>. The Afro-Indigenous (Zapotec<\/a>) activist placed the term Latinidad<\/a> on a car making a sharp right turn at an exit. At the top of the image, the road sign that points ahead lists, \u201cadmitting racism & anti-Blackness exists & a commitment to build solidarity with Black and Indigenous people.\u201d The arrow pointing right notes, \u201cmestiza<\/a> supremacy & your insistence that your great-great-great-great grandmother was Black.\u201d The car, which moved in the latter direction, symbolizes the ideologies of Latinidad.<\/p>\n

A few days later, Pelaez posted on their Instagram account that \u201cLatinidad is canceled<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

With each repost or share, Latinxs<\/a>, a large percentage identifying as Afro-Latinx and\/or Indigenous, championed Pelaez Lopez\u2019s<\/a> meme and called for cancellation. Others, many who would be racialized as white or mixed-raced (mulatto<\/a> or mestizo) Latinxs, contested the message.<\/p>\n

Though positioned as an all-inclusive cultural identity, Latinidad has historically proven to be a term beneficial to a select few. Gauging one\u2019s proximity to whiteness \u2013 gender, sexual preference and able-bodied privileges included \u2013 Latinidad incites the question, who is included and, ultimately, excluded from its definition?…<\/p>\n

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

Though positioned as an all-inclusive cultural identity, Latinidad has historically proven to be a term beneficial to a select few. Gauging one\u2019s proximity to whiteness \u2013 gender, sexual preference and able-bodied privileges included \u2013 Latinidad incites the question, who is included and, ultimately, excluded from its definition?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,21,14646,8,20],"tags":[30090,30089,19464,30091,9106],"class_list":["post-58637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-alan-lopez","tag-alan-pelaez-lopez","tag-remezcla","tag-tasha-brown","tag-yvette-modestin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58637","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=58637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58639,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58637\/revisions\/58639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}