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Afro-Latina
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AfroLatina Afrolatina afrolatina
English
Alternative forms
en AfroLatina Afrolatina
Etymology
From en Afro Latina.
Pronunciation
en /ˌæfɹoʊləˈtinə/ [ˌæfɹoʊ̯ləˈtʰinə] GA
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Adjective
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Of mixed African and Latina descent.
en Petra R. Rivera-Rideau; Jennifer A. Jones; Tianna S. Paschel Afro-Latin@s in Movement: Critical Approaches to Blackness and Transnationalism in the Americas w:Palgrave Macmillan 2016 157 978-1-137-60320-3 In this respect, [Maymie] De Mena continually negotiates the complex intersections of Eurocentric constructions of “respectable” women’s behavior and roles, in the context of expectations about black women’s uncontrolled sexuality, and “redemptive” discourses about people in the not-yet postcolonial African diaspora. Yet she does so from a unique Afro-Latina and moreover Central American perspective.
en Brick & Storm Eraserheads: A Hood Misfits Novel w:Urban Books 2018 9781945855443 “Your guard, she is Afro-Latina. I can see it in her,” my client said, then glanced my way. “Is everything good, young man?” Oya was Brazilian, black, and Portuguese, so he wasn’t wrong.
en Trevor Boffone; Cristina Herrera Latinx Teens: U.S. Popular Culture on the Page, Stage, and Screen The University of Arizona Press 2022 78–79 9780816542758 But, unlike Esperanza and Julia, Xiomara is not Chicana; she is Afro-Latina and a poet, a young girl we seldom see represented in popular culture
Noun
A woman of mixed African and Latina descent.
en Rachel Afi Quinn This Bridge Called the Internet: Black Lesbian Feminist Activism in Santo Domingo Cheryl R. Rodriguez; Dzodzi Tsikata; Akosua Adomako Ampofo Transatlantic Feminisms: Women and Gender Studies in Africa and the Diaspora Lexington Books 2015 section I (Feminist Politics and the Politics of “Black” Feminisms 34 978-1-4985-0716-5 Claiming blackness allows her to connect her experience to other Afro-Latinas and have experiences of difference acknowledged.
en Michelle Holder; Alan A. Aja Afro-Latinos in the U.S. Economy Lexington Books 2021 90 9781498546249 Some of the distributional similarities between Afro-Latinas and other female demographic groups, including white and African American women, include “pink-collar job” crowding:
en Wendi S. Williams WE Matter!: Intersectional Anti-Racist Feminist Interventions with Black Girls and Women w:Routledge 2022 978-1-032-05804-7 Due to their gender, Black/Afro-Latinas are considered more threatening to the family racial character than Black/Afro-Latino fathers as they are expected to be physically and emotionally present in the lives of their offspring more so than fathers.
Coordinate terms
en Afro-Latino, en Afro-Latinx
en Multiracial