{"id":59920,"date":"2020-07-07T02:21:45","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T02:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59920"},"modified":"2020-07-08T18:30:20","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T18:30:20","slug":"a-hard-conversation-for-the-latino-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59920","title":{"rendered":"A Hard Conversation for the Latino Community"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Hard Conversation for the Latino Community<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2020-07-03<\/p>\n

Jorge Ramos<\/strong><\/a>, Television Anchor
\nUnivision<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nIlia Calder\u00f3n<\/a> onstage during Univision\u2019s Premio Lo Nuestro 2020<\/em> at Miami\u2019s<\/a> American Airlines Arena, in February. Jason Koerner\/Getty Images<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Racism is deeply rooted in America\u2019s social system, putting Afro-Latinos at a constant disadvantage.<\/em><\/p>\n

MIAMI<\/a> \u2014 Every weeknight, I sit down next to my co-anchor Ilia Calder\u00f3n<\/a> to host the Spanish-language news program \u201cNoticiero Univision<\/a>.\u201d Although our many viewers have come to know Ms. Calder\u00f3n\u2019s face, not many know how much she has had to overcome to sit in that chair. Her story, like that of many Latinos with African ancestry in the United States<\/a>, is one of tremendous personal achievement, as well as astonishing perseverance in the face of deep-seated racism.<\/p>\n

Ms. Calder\u00f3n was born in the Choc\u00f3<\/a> region of Colombia<\/a>, a place she describes as \u201cour little Black paradise.\u201d When Ilia was 10, she left home to study in a Catholic school in Medell\u00edn<\/a>, where one of the white students was so disgusted by the color of Ilia\u2019s skin \u2014 and so proud of her own fair complexion \u2014 that she told Ilia, \u201cYou\u2019re Black? Not even my horse is black!\u201d That first encounter with racism in Latin America<\/a> left a mark on Ilia \u2014 one she never forgot.<\/p>\n

When she moved to Miami in 2001 to pursue a career in journalism, things weren\u2019t much different. \u201cI had to endure racism in Colombia,\u201d she told me recently, \u201cand it turns out that here I have to face the same thing. It\u2019s how they look at you, how they behave when you are around. \u2026It\u2019s like you have to go through that experience twice: For being Hispanic and also for being Black.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to a 2014 survey by the Pew Research Center<\/a>, 24 percent of the roughly 54 million Hispanics living in the United States at the time self-identified as Afro-Latino, Afro-Caribbean or as another, more specific Afro-Latino identity, such as Afro-Colombian<\/a>. At the same time, 34 percent identified as \u201cmestizo<\/a>, mulatto<\/a> or some other mixed race.\u201d…<\/p>\n

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