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MonicaStyleMuse celebrates Afro Latina identity and confidence

Beauty creator MonicaStyleMuse inspires young audiences by embracing Afro Latina identity and encouraging confidence and ...
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‘It’s up to me to learn more about it’: What does Afro-Latino identity mean for UF students?

For many Afro-Latino students like Odoi at UF, identity lives at the intersection of race, culture and history. At a school where one in five students identifies as Hispanic, on-campus clubs offer ...
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Rewriting the Map: How Kim Haas Is Uncovering Afro-Latin America’s Hidden Heritage

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I knew this adventure with Kim Haas wasn’t ordinary the moment we climbed onto a motorcycle-powered wooden train cart in Córdoba, ...
The Root

Harvard Afro-Latin American History Professor to Edit Transition Magazine

The Hutchins Center at Harvard University has announced the appointment of Alejandro de la Fuente as the new editor of Transition, the longest running Pan-African cultural magazine in history. Under ...
World Bank

Afro-descendants in Latin America

One in four Latin Americans identify themselves as people of African descent. They are one of the largest, yet least visible minorities in the region, comprising over 133 million people, the majority ...
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Harvard Hosts Symposium on the Afrodescendant Movement in Latin America

“This is the most important event of the first year of the United Nations Decennial on Afrodescendants.” That is how Celeo Alvarez, leader and founder of ODECO (Organization of Community Ethnic ...
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Comparative perspectives on Afro-Latin America / edited by Kwame Dixon and John Burdick ; foreword by Howard Winant

Blackness and cultural difference -- Nurturing Bantu Africanness in Bahia / Patricia de Santana Pinho -- Strategies of the Black Pacific: Music and Diasporic Identity in Peru / Heidi Carolyn Feldman - ...
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Afro-Latin@s in movement : critical approaches to blackness and transnationalism in the Americas / Petra R. Rivera-Rideau, Jennifer A. Jones, Tianna S. Paschel, editors

Introduction: Theorizing Afrolatinidades Petra R. Rivera-Rideau, Jennifer A. Jones, and Tianna S. Paschel Part I: Imagining Afrolatinidades Jossianna Arroyo -- 1 The Expediency of Blackness: Racial ...
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This Black-owned Company Just Launched an Afro-inspired Tour in Latin America

The Costa Rica travel group taking a cooking class together. Kim Haas discovered her lifelong passion for travel at just six years old. During her first trip outside the U.S. to Acapulco, Mexico, a ...
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How Jamaica Is Building a Tourism Bridge Between Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America

Jamaica’s Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett is leading a new Afro-Atlantic tourism partnership linking Angola, Brazil and ...
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Rewriting the Map: How Kim Haas Is Uncovering Afro-Latin America’s Hidden Heritage

I knew this adventure with Kim Haas wasn’t ordinary the moment we climbed onto a motorcycle-powered wooden train cart in Córdoba, bound for the remote village of San Cipriano. Home to just 600 people ...