Culture, Love & Identity: An AfroLatina International Reading Live-streamed reading produced by Icess Fernandez Rojas, featuring works by Marilou Razo, María Elena Montero, Guadalís Del Carmen, Alicia Anabel Santos, Jasminne Mendez, and Icess Fernandez Rojas.
Los Afro-Latinos: Q&A with Miriam Jimenez Roman: Her work as a writer, professor and head of the Afro-Latin@ Forum has educated the world about the Afro-Latin experience and made her an authority on the subject. Her latest work, The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States, has been hailed for critics for its diverse portrait of Black Latinos in America.
ESPN One Nación True Colors: Charlie Villanueva & Others Explain the Afro Latino Experience: Charlie Villanueva knows that life in the United States for many still means being judged by one’s skin color, but he’s not shy about challenging such preconceived ideas, boldly asking if the public can know who he really is by just a surface assessment.
Seven Collective: Did you know that Nabil was Dominican? Dominicans and their African Heritage
Poems by Ariana Brown, a Black Mexican American poet from San Antonio, TX, is the recipient of two Academy of American Poets Prizes and a 2014 collegiate national slam champion. Her work has been featured in PBS, Huffington Post, Blavity, and Remezcla.
Atlanta Black Star: Actress Dascha Polanco Schools Charlamagne on Being Black and Latino, Race and Nationality
ARTICLES online:
Flores, Juan, and Miriam Jiménez Román. “Triple-Consciousness? Approaches to Afro-Latino Culture in the United States.” Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies4.3 (2009): 319-28. Taylor & Francis Journals Complete. Web.27 Feb. 2016.
Love, David. “Mexico Officially Recognizes 1.38 Million Afro-Mexicans in the National Census, as Black People Fight Against Racism and Invisibility Throughout Latin America.“ Atlanta Blackstar. AtlantaBlackstar.com, 14 Dec. 2015. Web.
Moreno, Carolina. “This Is What It Means To Be Afro-Latino.” The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 25 Feb. 2015. Web.
Sanchez Saltveit, Olga. “(Afro)Latinx Theatre: Embodiment and Articulation.” Label Me Latina/o, VII, 2017, pp. 1–20.
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For more information, please contact Olga Sanchez Saltveit: osanchez@uoregon.edu