Aida’s Reviews > The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States > Status Update
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"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."
— Jul 25, 2023 12:07PM
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Aida
is on page 88 of 584
"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..."
— Jul 26, 2023 01:48PM
Aida
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"...sumptuary law was to return the free women of color, visibly and symbolically, to the subordinate and inferior status associated with slavery."
— Jul 26, 2023 01:21PM
Aida
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"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@."
— Jul 25, 2023 11:53AM
