{"id":63391,"date":"2022-03-11T16:21:58","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T16:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63391"},"modified":"2022-03-15T22:37:27","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T22:37:27","slug":"we-are-black-we-just-speak-spanish-why-some-afro-latinos-want-more-visibility-during-black-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63391","title":{"rendered":"‘We Are Black. We Just Speak Spanish’: Why Some Afro Latinos Want More Visibility During Black History Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘We Are Black. We Just Speak Spanish’: Why Some Afro Latinos Want More Visibility During Black History Month<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

KQED News<\/a>
\nSan Fransisco, California
\n2022-02-18<\/p>\n

Blanca Torres<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Novelist Aya de Leon<\/a> (left), Nelson German<\/a>, head chef and owner of alaMar<\/a>, and Jacqueline Garcel<\/a>, CEO of the Latino Community Foundation<\/a>. All three are Afro Latinos<\/a> who live in the Bay Area<\/a>. (Blanca Torres\/KQED)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nelson German<\/a>, the chef and owner of alaMar<\/a>, a seafood restaurant in Oakland<\/a>, remembers the day a Black family asked a staffer about the Black owner they had heard about.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis isn\u2019t a Black-owned restaurant,\u201d he recalled the staffer telling the family. \u201cThis is a Dominican-owned restaurant.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hearing about that interaction was a turning point for German. As a Black Dominican American, German, 41, realized he hadn\u2019t done enough to educate those around him about his Blackness and the importance of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are Black. We are part of the African diaspora<\/a>. We just speak Spanish,\u201d German said. \u201cThe African continent influenced the world. We should embrace that, and really give tribute to it now, because there’s a lot of people who had to shed their blood and sacrifice their lives for us to be in this position. We should show them some respect.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, I always say Afro Latino<\/a>,\u201d he said…<\/p>\n

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

The history of Afro Latinos is not taught in American schools, and the idea that someone can be Black and Latino still feels novel to some people, according to Tanya K. Hern\u00e1ndez, a professor at Fordham University School of Law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,14646,8],"tags":[33231,33229,455,33232,13063,21425,33230,18255,9568,2113,5161,2112],"class_list":["post-63391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-latino","category-media-archive","tag-aya-de-leon","tag-blanca-torres","tag-california","tag-jacqueline-garcel","tag-kqed","tag-kqed-news","tag-nelson-german","tag-oakland","tag-san-francisco","tag-tanya-hernandez","tag-tanya-k-hernandez","tag-tanya-kateri-hernandez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63391","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=63391"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63433,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63391\/revisions\/63433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}