Afrolatina

See also: AfroLatina, afrolatina, and Afro-Latina

English

Adjective

Afrolatina (comparative more Afrolatina, superlative most Afrolatina)

1. Alternative form of Afro-Latina
   • 2012, Nicole L. Sparling, “Mothers of Afrolatinidad: Dislocating New World Identities in Latino/a Studies and African American Studies”, in Luz Angélica Kirschner, editor, Expanding Latinidad: An Inter-American Perspective (Josef Raab and Sebastian Thies, editors, Inter-American Studies, volume 5), Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier; Bilingual Press / Editorial Bilingüe, →ISBN, page 174:

     To analyze these novels outside of an Afrolatino/a framework is to fail to recognize that, by telling the stories of Afrolatina (m)others, Jones and Morrison locate alternative shades of comparison as they innovate New World oral traditions.

   • 2020, Jillian Hernandez, Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment, Durham, N.C., London: Duke University Press, →ISBN:

     Baina Colonial is the colonial bullshit that places Black and Afrolatina women in the bull’s-eye of racialized gendering through both spectacularization as exotic sex objects, and wholesale cultural erasure.

   • 2021, Toyin Olabode, “Vignette: This Is What a (Pan)African Feminist Looks Like”, in Omobolade Delano-Oriaran, Marguerite W. Penick, Shemariah J. Arki, Ali Michael, Orinthia Swindell, Eddie Moore Jr., editors, Teaching Beautiful Brilliant Black Girls, Corwin Press, →ISBN, section “Respecting”, part I (“I’ll be bossy and damn proud.”—Rosa Clemente), chapter 20 (Shemariah J. Arki, “Who Are Black Girls? An Intersectional Herstory of Feminism”):

     The subsequent vignette by Dr. Sandra (Chap) Chapman describes Chap’s experience as someone who identifies as Afrolatina and queer, helping readers appreciate how young people in the classroom are constantly negotiating and navigating their own identities.

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

     How is your healing shaped by your identity and experience as Black/Afrolatina, class, sexual orientation/gender expression?

Noun

Afrolatina (plural Afrolatinas)

1. Alternative form of Afro-Latina
   • 2012, Nicole L. Sparling, “Mothers of Afrolatinidad: Dislocating New World Identities in Latino/a Studies and African American Studies”, in Luz Angélica Kirschner, editor, Expanding Latinidad: An Inter-American Perspective (Josef Raab and Sebastian Thies, editors, Inter-American Studies, volume 5), Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier; Bilingual Press / Editorial Bilingüe, →ISBN, page 165:

     Although she does not self-identify as an Afrolatina, Ursa emerges as a result of Portuguese imperialism and the African slave trade in the New World who reclaims her black heritage as an ally; […]

   • 2020, Jillian Hernandez, Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment, Durham, N.C., London: Duke University Press, →ISBN:

     The subject position of Afrolatinas is so threatening to the Latinx and Latin American social order that it appears unavailable and therefore unnecessary and invalid.

   • 2021, Omobolade Delano-Oriaran, Marguerite W. Penick, Shemariah J. Arki, Ali Michael, Orinthia Swindell, Eddie Moore Jr., editors, Teaching Beautiful Brilliant Black Girls, Corwin Press, →ISBN:

     A case in point is the four-year old^[sic] Afrolatina in Sandra Chapman and Imani Chapman's “Black Girl on the Playground,” who was playing in a community playground and encountered racial aggression from two white boys, ages 7 and 10.