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Addressing Anti-Blackness Within The Latinx Community Resources

Below is a compiled (but not exhaustive) list of various resources that help address anti-Blackness within the Latinx community. This list was compiled exclusively for SAC by Dr. Claudia García-Louis.

Articles

Chesnutt, C. W. (1898). The wife of his youth.

Cruz-Janzen, M. I. (2002). Lives on the crossfire: The struggle of multiethnic and multiracial latinos for identity in a dichotomous and racialized world. Race, Gender & Class, 9(2), 47–62. 

Flores, J., & Jiménez Román, M. (2009). Triple-consciousness? Approaches to Afro-Latino culture in the United States. Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, 4(3), 319–328. 

García-Louis, C. (2020) Recuperando nuestra identidad: AfroLatinx students decolonizing their African lineage, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education

García-Louis, C. (2018). Ni Latino, ni Negro: The (in)visibility of AfroLatino males in higher education research. Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity, 4(1), 97-122.  

Haywood, J. M. (2017). Anti-Black Latino racism in an era of Trumpismo. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 30(10), 957-964.

Haywood, J. M. (2017). ‘Latino spaces have always been the most violent’: Afro-Latino collegians’ perceptions of colorism and Latino intragroup marginalization. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 30(8), 759-782.

Hordge-Freeman, E., & Veras, E. (2019). Out of the Shadows, into the Dark: Ethnoracial Dissonance and Identity Formation among Afro-Latina/o/x. Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

Manrique, L. (2016). Dreaming of a cosmic race: José Vasconcelos and the politics of race in Mexico, 1920s-1930s. Cogent Arts & Humanities, 3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2016.1218316

Books

Alcoff, L. M. (2006). Visible identities: Race, gender and the self. New York, NY: Oxford Press

Available as ebook

Jiménez Román, M., & Flores, J. (2010). The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 

Sue, C. A. (2013). Land of the Cosmic Race: Race Mixture, Racism, and Blackness in Mexico. Oxford Press. Available as ebook

Collectives/Websites

AfroLatin@ Forum

AfroLatinx Podcast 

Black Latinas Know Collective 

Black Lives Matter 

Blogs & Non-Academic Articles

Aint I Latina? 

Black people can’t be racist 

Kahn, A. & Bouie, J. (2015). The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes: 315 years. 20, 528. Millions of lives. Slate. 

No Justice, No Peace: How to Come to Terms with Your Own Anti-Blackness 

YouTube Videos

Breaking Down the Anti-Blackness of Latinidad 

Colorism in the Latinx Community 

What Afro-Latinos Want you to Know 

AfroMexicans: Dancing Their Way Back to Their Roots 

Gaspar Yanga and the Mexican Slave Revolt of 1609: Mexico Unexplained 

Recursos antiracistas en español

A Spanish Guide: How to Talk to my Latinx Family about Black Lives Matter 

El racismo que Mexico no quiere ver 

Google Doc Compiled Resources

In Spanish 

In English

Reports

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/03/01/afro-latino-a-deeply-rooted-identity-among-u-s-hispanics/

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL32713.pdf

https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2015/06/11/chapter-7-the-many-dimensions-of-hispanic-racial-identity/

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Maria del Refugio Ozuna, age 13, and Mrs. San Juan Gonzales, age 77, working at the Southern Pecan Shelling Company, Jan.17, 1938.| Photo courtesy of UTSA

Emma Tenayuca, "La Pasionaria de Texas" (Led the 1938 Pecan Sheller Strike in San Antonio)

San Antonio Police Chief Kilday warns public of "communist agitators"

Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition) "Dolores Huerta (center), wearing a sweater with the UFW symbol, encourages other workers to fight..." The Sixties in America Reference Library, edited by Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast, vol. 2: Biographies, UXL, 20

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Dancing Video Reaction: 'Unsurprising Republicans Would Think Having Fun Should Be Disqualifying or Illegal'

Mexico’s Most Celebrated Pachuco: Tin Tan

In the 1940s and 50s, zoot suits were worn by Mexican-American hipsters who embraced the flamboyant oversized style of dress to express their desire for freedom from discrimination and racism as an underclass

Zoot Suit Riots: Two young Los Angeleans reported to police that they were attacked by U.S. sailors who tore off their trousers, June 1943. AP Images.

The federal Bracero program, which recruited 4.6 million Mexican citizens to work in agriculture in the United States.

"You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore," Cesar Chavez

"Sun Mad," first created in 1981 by Artista Ester Hernandez

Mas arte by Ester Hernandez

Celebrated author Tomas Rivera, whose works include: "y no se lo tragó la tierra" (...And the Earth Did Not Devour Him)

Guerrero was a pioneer, becoming one of the first Mexican American recording artists to cultivate swing and to incorporate code-switching or bilingualism in his compositions, as in “Los Chucos Suaves” (The Suave Pachucos) and “Vamos a Bailar” (Let's Dance

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