{"id":63473,"date":"2022-03-20T21:08:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-20T21:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63473"},"modified":"2022-03-20T21:08:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T21:08:24","slug":"who-is-afro-latin-examining-the-social-construction-of-race-and-negritude-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63473","title":{"rendered":"Who is Afro-Latin@? Examining the Social Construction of Race and N\u00e9gritude in Latin America and the Caribbean"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who is Afro-Latin@? Examining the Social Construction of Race and N\u00e9gritude in Latin America and the Caribbean<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Social Education<\/a>
\nVolume 81, January\/February (2017)<\/a>
\npages 37-42<\/p>\n

Christopher L. Busey<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor
\nSchool of Teaching and Learning
\nUniversity of Florida, Gainesville, Florida<\/em><\/p>\n

B\u00e1rbara C. Cruz<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Social Education
\nUniversity of South Florida, Tampa, Florida<\/em><\/p>\n

By the 1930s the n\u00e9gritude<\/em><\/a> ideological movement, which fostered a pride and consciousness of African heritage, gained prominence and acceptance among black intellectuals in Europe<\/a>, Africa<\/a>, and the Americas. While embraced by many, some of African descent rejected the philosophy, despite evident historical and cultural markers. Such was the case of Rafael Trujillo<\/a>, who had assumed power in the Dominican Republic<\/a> in 1930. Trujillo, a dark-skinned Dominican whose grandmother was Haitian, used light-colored pancake make-up to appear whiter. He literally had his family history rewritten and “whitewashed,” once he took power of the island nation. Beyond efforts to alter his personal appearance and recast his own history, Trujillo also took extreme measures to erase blackness in Dominican society during his 31 years of dictatorial rule. On a national level, Trujillo promoted blanqueamiento<\/em><\/a> (whitening), encouraging the immigration of single Europeans to the island and offering refuge to Jews during World War II<\/a> because they were considered white\u2014thus attempting to mejorar la raza<\/em> or “improve [whiten] the race” of the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n

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

Who is Afro-Latin@? Examining the Social Construction of Race and N\u00e9gritude in Latin America and the Caribbean Social Education Volume 81, January\/February (2017) pages 37-42 Christopher L. Busey, Associate Professor School of Teaching and Learning University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida B\u00e1rbara C. Cruz, Professor of Social Education University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida By the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,459,8,6462,26],"tags":[33294,3468,33296,33293,33295],"class_list":["post-63473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-politics","tag-christopher-l-busey","tag-dominican-republic","tag-negritude","tag-rafael-trujillo","tag-social-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63473","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=63473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63474,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63473\/revisions\/63474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}