Afro-Latina

See also: AfroLatina, Afrolatina, and afrolatina

English

Alternative forms

• AfroLatina, Afrolatina

Etymology

From Afro- +‎ Latina.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌæfɹoʊləˈtinə/

Adjective

Afro-Latina (not comparable)

1. Of mixed African and Latina descent.
   • 2016, Petra R. Rivera-Rideau, Jennifer A. Jones, Tianna S. Paschel, editors, Afro-Latin@s in Movement: Critical Approaches to Blackness and Transnationalism in the Americas, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 157:

     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.

   • 2018, Brick & Storm, Eraserheads: A Hood Misfits Novel, Urban Books, →ISBN:

     “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.

   • 2022, Trevor Boffone, Cristina Herrera, Latinx Teens: U.S. Popular Culture on the Page, Stage, and Screen, The University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, pages 78–79:

     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

Afro-Latina (plural Afro-Latinas)

1. A woman of mixed African and Latina descent.
   • 2015, Rachel Afi Quinn, “This Bridge Called the Internet: Black Lesbian Feminist Activism in Santo Domingo”, in Cheryl R. Rodriguez, Dzodzi Tsikata, Akosua Adomako Ampofo, editors, Transatlantic Feminisms: Women and Gender Studies in Africa and the Diaspora, Lexington Books, →ISBN, section I (Feminist Politics and the Politics of “Black” Feminisms, page 34:

     Claiming blackness allows her to connect her experience to other Afro-Latinas and have experiences of difference acknowledged.

   • 2021, Michelle Holder, Alan A. Aja, Afro-Latinos in the U.S. Economy, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 90:

     Some of the distributional similarities between Afro-Latinas and other female demographic groups, including white and African American women, include “pink-collar job” crowding: […]

   • 2022, Wendi S. Williams, editor, WE Matter!: Intersectional Anti-Racist Feminist Interventions with Black Girls and Women, Routledge, →ISBN:

     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

• Afro-Latino, Afro-Latinx