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Art

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If you enjoyed the art featured on the "Creating our own Canvas" page, check out more from the 'Afro Syncretic' exhibition and THE LATINX PROJECT

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We decorate our homes with the same intimacy that we build our lives and our identities with. Check out this art exhibition "afroLAtinidad: mi casa, my city" which takes a look at Afro-Latinx culture in Los Angeles

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Social Justice and Movements

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Interested in hearing some of the dynamics of Afro-Latinidad in the United States? Want to hear how the Afro-Latinx diaspora collides with the role of identity in America? Check out NPR's 2017 "Too Black, Too Latino" radio show archive

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Experience art as continued rebellion and protest through marronage in contemporary Panamanian art

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A double identity and a double marginalization? Take a look at the marginalized experience of Afro-Latinx communities in the United States and the role of construction in navigating complex identities

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Music

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From the expanses of Latin America and the endless echos of Afro-Latin musical artistries to the American"Gateway to the West" of St. Louis, learn how Afro-Latin music has had an influence on the midwestern US 

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Wellness and Spirituality

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Read how botanicas provide a community for the intersections of self-care and wellness mixed with spirituality for Santeria practitioners in NYC 

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Check out the visually impressive and diverse visuals from various Afro-Latin religions in this photo essay from Americas Quarterly

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Learn more about the importance of decolonized knowledge in Afro-Indigenous traditions of the Americas from Caribbean Women Healers

 

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Pop Culture and Mainstream Media

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Enjoy this list of featured Afro-Latinos who defined US pop culture history with timeless legacies in sports, entertainment, poetry, and civil rights

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Looking for a new read? Check out these 10 novels with Afro-Latinx centered storylines and characers 

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References

García-Louis, C., & Cortes, K. L. (2020). Rejecting black and rejected back: AfroLatinx college students’ experiences with antiAfroLatinidad. Journal of Latinos and Education, 1–16.

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Haywood, J. M. (2017). AntiBlack Latino racism in an era of Trumpismo. Null, 30(10), 957–964. https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2017.1312613

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Latorre, S. (2012). AfroLatino/a identities: Challenges, history, and perspectives. Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal, 9(5).

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Marshall, Y. (2020, June 19). An Appeal: Bring the Maroon to the Foreground in Black Intellectual History | AAIHS. Black Perspectives; African American Intellectual History Society. https://www.aaihs.org/an-appeal-bring-the-maroon-to-the-foreground-in-black-intellectual-history/

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Mundell, J. (2020, June 30). ¡Azúcar! : Celia Cruz and black diasporic feminist interjection. ResearchGate; Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342584982_Azucar_Celia_Cruz_and_black_diasporic_feminist_interjection

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Pastrana, A. (2004). Black identity constructions: Inserting intersectionality, bisexuality, and (afro) latinidad into black studies. Journal of African American Studies, 8(1), 74–89. https://doi.org/10.1007/s1211100410051

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Williams, P. (2016). Santeria and mental health: bridging the gap between the social work profession and Orisha.

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Zamora, Omaris Z. (2020). Black Latina Girlhood Poetics of the Body: Church, Sexuality and Dispossession. Post45: The Body of Contemporary Latina/O/X Poetry. Retrieved September, 20, 2020.

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