Status Updates From The Afro-Latin@ Reader: His...

"Although they frequently face the presumption that one is either Black or Latin@, Afro-Latin@s can have experiences and social contacts that link them to both communities. They negotiate parallel, if differently configured, exclusions as they move between Latin American and United States societies. And like Schomburg they can find spaces to exert leadership in struggles to make Latin@ communities live up to..."

"...sumptuary law was to return the free women of color, visibly and symbolically, to the subordinate and inferior status associated with slavery."

"While the post-Civil Rights era brought a widespread reflection on race and Blackness among African Americans, especially because of the rapid rise in Black immigration from the Caribbean and Africa, Latin@ identity came to be increasingly defined as non-Black, and in some ways anti-Black."

"We have identified four primary "coordinates" to a deeper and more flexible understanding of that specific reality: group history, transnational discourse, relations between African Americans and Latin@s, and the specific lived experience of being Afro-Latin@."

Just read "The Earliest Africans in North America" by Peter H. Wood, p. 19-26

Read the article by John Sawyer: "Racial Politics in Multiethnic America: Black and Latina/o Identities and Coalitions"