{"id":60455,"date":"2020-12-12T02:38:12","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T02:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60455"},"modified":"2020-12-14T03:35:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T03:35:46","slug":"the-afro-latinx-experience-is-essential-to-our-international-reckoning-on-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60455","title":{"rendered":"The Afro-Latinx Experience Is Essential To Our International Reckoning On Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/07\/02\/886568058\/the-afro-latinx-experience-black-lives-matter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>The Afro-Latinx Experience Is Essential To Our International Reckoning On Race<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Public Radio<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/podcasts\/510305\/alt-latino\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ALT.LATINO<\/a><br \/>\n2020-07-03<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/felixatjazz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Felix Contreras<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/anais_laurent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Ana\u00efs Laurent<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/MarisaArbona\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Marisa Arbona-Ruiz<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/JasGarsd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Jasmine Garsd<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"550\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/07\/02\/886568058\/the-afro-latinx-experience-black-lives-matter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2020\/07\/02\/gettyimages-1219671861_wide-2f6e8f09832b1e2919af2923cc349481501f5ece-s1600-c85.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>In <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tijuana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tijuana<\/a>, raised fists show solidarity with the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Lives_Matter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Lives Matter<\/a> movement.<br \/>\n<em>Guillermo Arias\/AFP via Getty Images<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/player\/embed\/886568058\/886645891\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s pause the music for a bit and talk through some things.<\/p>\n<p>In three segments, we&#8217;re going to have a conversation about how <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Afro-Latin_Americans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Afro-Latinx<\/a> folks often get left out of national discussions about Blackness and, in particular, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Lives_Matter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Lives Matter<\/a> movement. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wellesley.edu\/americanstudies\/facstaff\/rivera-rideau\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Petra Rivera-Rideua<\/a>, of Wellesley College, and <a href=\"https:\/\/latcar.rutgers.edu\/people\/core-faculty\/45-omaris-z-zamora\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Omaris Z. Zamora<\/a>, of Rutgers, help us wade through layers of complexities. Our newest contributor to the <em>Alt.Latino<\/em> family, NPR publicist Ana\u00efs Laurent, lends her considerable knowledge of Afro-Latinx culture and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reggaeton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reggaeton<\/a> to the conversation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think that the media, on a national level, is doing the work to understand that Blackness is heterogeneous,&#8221; Zamora says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are Black Latinos, there are Afro Latinos who very much a part of Black Lives Matter and the experiences we&#8217;re talking about,&#8221; Laurent adds.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/07\/02\/886568058\/the-afro-latinx-experience-black-lives-matter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In three segments, we&#8217;re going to have a conversation about how Afro-Latinx folks often get left out of national discussions about Blackness and, in particular, the Black Lives Matter movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,2850,14646,8],"tags":[25916,31251,25917,14785,31252,1392,2309,2833,31254,31253],"class_list":["post-60455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-audio","category-latino","category-media-archive","tag-alt-latino","tag-anais-laurent","tag-felix-contreras","tag-jasmine-garsd","tag-marisa-arbona-ruiz","tag-music","tag-national-public-radio","tag-npr","tag-omaris-z-zamora","tag-petra-rivera-rideua"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60455","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=60455"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60460,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60455\/revisions\/60460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}