{"id":61150,"date":"2021-08-01T22:17:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T22:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61150"},"modified":"2021-08-01T22:17:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T22:17:21","slug":"the-spectacle-of-latinx-colorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61150","title":{"rendered":"The Spectacle of Latinx Colorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/07\/30\/opinion\/latino-racism-colorism-latinx.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>The Spectacle of Latinx Colorism<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2021-07-30<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Karla_Cornejo_Villavicencio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Karla Cornejo Villavicencio<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/07\/30\/opinion\/latino-racism-colorism-latinx.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2021\/08\/01\/opinion\/sunday\/23villavicencio\/23villavicencio-superJumbo.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jawndidion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><small>Tina Tona<\/small><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This summer\u2019s controversy over the underrepresentation of dark-skinned <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Afro-Latinos<\/a> in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/In_the_Heights_(film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In the Heights<\/a>,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cinema_of_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hollywood<\/a> adaptation of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/In_the_Heights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Broadway musical<\/a>, laid bare the cancer of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Discrimination_based_on_skin_color\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">colorism<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Latinx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Latinx<\/a> communities in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States<\/a>. The reckoning was long overdue, a pain that goes back as long as our community has existed. And the mainstream media was enraptured. It created what I think of as t<em>he spectacle<\/em> \u2014 el espect\u00e1culo. I haven\u2019t seen as high a demand for Latinx voices since the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Orlando_nightclub_shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pulse shooting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Latinidad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Latinidad<\/a>\u201d is the shared language, childhood references, music, food, inside jokes and idiosyncratic TV Spanglish among the Latinx in this country. It is the sameness that unites us no matter where we grow up, and no matter where our parents were from. But the idea of sameness can devastate as much as it can connect. An open wound in this world of Latinx has been the shame around darkness, our own and that of our family and neighbors and compatriots. According to media by us or for us, dark-skinned Afro-Latinos do not exist and if they do, they aren\u2019t Latino. Not <em>really<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire essay <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/07\/30\/opinion\/latino-racism-colorism-latinx.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spectacle of Latinx Colorism The New York Times 2021-07-30 Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Tina Tona This summer\u2019s controversy over the underrepresentation of dark-skinned Afro-Latinos in \u201cIn the Heights,\u201d the Hollywood adaptation of the Broadway musical, laid bare the cancer of colorism in Latinx communities in the United States. The reckoning was long overdue, a pain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14646,8,394,20],"tags":[240,31667,2640,2327],"class_list":["post-61150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-colorism","tag-karla-cornejo-villavicencio","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61150","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=61150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61152,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61150\/revisions\/61152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}