{"id":60993,"date":"2021-06-22T22:30:39","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T22:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60993"},"modified":"2021-06-22T22:30:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T22:30:40","slug":"latinos-in-the-u-s-grew-up-with-this-idea-that-latinos-are-mixed-race-and-so-are-incapable-of-racism-and-that-allows-them-to-sort-of-marginalize-and-ignore-afro-latinos-who-are-often-the-vi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60993","title":{"rendered":"\u201cLatinos in the U.S. grew up with this idea that Latinos are mixed-race and so are incapable of racism. And that allows them to sort of marginalize and ignore Afro-Latinos who are often the victims of overt or subtle discrimination.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The homogenous representation of Latinos on the big screen stems from a larger issue, says <a href=\"https:\/\/edmorales.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ed Morales<\/a>, a lecturer at <a href=\"https:\/\/cser.columbia.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Columbia University\u2019s Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race<\/a>. He describes a longstanding ideology in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Latin_America\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Latin America<\/a> that emphasizes pride in building a mixed-race society. \u201cIt\u2019s attached to this idea of what\u2019s called <em>mestizo<\/em>, which is, as the word describes, the phenomenon of racial mixture in Latin America and how it\u2019s different from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States<\/a>,\u201d Morales says. Black Latinos\u2019 ancestors were brought to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_America\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South America<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caribbean\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Caribbean<\/a> by the same <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atlantic_slave_trade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">transatlantic slave trade<\/a> that delivered enslaved people to the U.S., but after emancipation, U.S. law forbade interracial marriages, whereas Latin-America did not. \u201cLatinos in the U.S. grew up with this idea that Latinos are mixed-race and so are incapable of racism. And that allows them to sort of marginalize and ignore <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Afro-Latinos<\/a> who are often the victims of overt or subtle discrimination.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Andrea Marks, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60964\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How \u2018In the Heights\u2019 Casting Focused a Wider Problem of Afro-Latino Representation<\/a>,\u201d <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-news\/in-the-heights-casting-colorism-afro-latino-1184945\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-news\/in-the-heights-casting-colorism-afro-latino-1184945\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The homogenous representation of Latinos on the big screen stems from a larger issue, says Ed Morales, a lecturer at Columbia University\u2019s Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race. He describes a longstanding ideology in Latin America that emphasizes pride in building a mixed-race society. \u201cIt\u2019s attached to this idea of what\u2019s called mestizo, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31527,9107,23949,23950],"class_list":["post-60993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-andrea-marks","tag-ed-morales","tag-rolling-stone","tag-rolling-stone-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60993","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=60993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60994,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60993\/revisions\/60994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}