Resources on Latinx racism, anti-blackness, and white supremacy in and out of Latin America  in English  

   

Dash Harris  for Radio Caña Negra 

Contributors: Javier Wallace  

 

  1.  ‘NEGRO’: EXPLORING IDENTITY AND THE COLOR COMPLEX AMONG LATINOS  https://afropunk.com/2013/12/negro-exploring-identity-and-the-color-complex-among-latinos/

 

  1. Deserved shame and the white anti-racist:  https://southoftherapy.com/2021/06/22/deserved-shame-and-the-white-anti-racist/ 

 

  1. Troubling the Essentialist Discourse of Brown in Education: The Anti-Black Sociopolitical and Sociohistorical Etymology of Latinxs as a Brown Monolith https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/KAZSQACSQXAKTZQPFI5V/full 

  1. Racial Subordination in Latin America (excerpt): https://books.google.com.pa/books/about/Racial_Subordination_in_Latin_America.html?id=e_ARE8CLMToC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

  1. Visual Discourses of Colonialism, Interracial Sex, Res https://bir.brandeis.edu/bitstream/handle/10192/33990/McAllister2016.pdf?sequence=4&isAllowed=y 

 

  1.  How Racism Persists In Latin American Communities  https://www.wlrn.org/post/how-racism-persists-latin-american-communities#stream/0 

  1. The Afro-Peruvian Women Leading the Black Movement in South America
  2. https://www.okayafrica.com/afro-peruvian-women-black-movement-south-america/ 
  3. Opinion: ‘In the Heights’ is just more of the same whitewashed Hollywood https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/21/in-the-heights-lin-manuel-miranda-black-colorism-afro-latinos/ 

 

  1. Activists Across Latin America Are Marching in Solidarity With 'Black Lives Matter' Protests in the US  https://www.okayafrica.com/latin-america-marches-in-solidarity-with-black-lives-matter/ 

 

  1. Who is Afro-Latin@? Examining the Social Construction of Race and Négritude in Latin America and the Caribbean https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313888832_Who_is_Afro-Latin_Examining_the_Social_Construction_of_Race_and_Negritude_in_Latin_America_and_the_Caribbean 

  1. No, I’m Not a Proud Latina: https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/latinx-identity-black-history-personal-essay 

  1. ¿QUÉ TIENE QUE VER GEORGE FLOYD CON EL PERÚ? https://puntoedu.pucp.edu.pe/voces-pucp/que-tiene-que-ver-george-floyd-con-el-peru/ 
  1. Translation: WHAT DOES GEORGE FLOYD HAVE TO DO WITH PERU? https://docs.google.com/document/d/1itrlrrsN6fYlTqBkFgEBJ3bXoIjt2MHQWSl6RbD9BNQ/edit?usp=sharing 

  1. In Panama, a Youth Soccer Group Leads the Charge Against Racism & Economic Impacts of COVID-19 https://www.okayafrica.com/panama-soccer-adc-against-racism-economic-impacts-covid/

  1. AfroResistence Blog: https://www.afroresistance.org/blog 

  1. Dismantling Anti-Blackness Together https://nacla.org/news/2020/06/09/dismantling-anti-blackness-together?fbclid=IwAR0wBaXzRxr6kfaAr9-p59ds9u7bkxeSCqPeAlJZC60wQEbEQDj-_zeVMB8   

  1. The Afro-Latino Story of Latino Anti-Blackness: https://aldianews.com/articles/politics/opinion/afro-latino-story-latino-anti-blackness/57664

  1. Racial Apartheid Persists in Latin America  https://www.americasquarterly.org/blog/racial-apartheid-persists-in-latin-america/

  1.  ANTI-BLACKNESS IN LATINX COUNTRIES IS SYSTEMIC AND REINFORCED BY DELIBERATE CULTURAL POLICY  https://afropunk.com/2018/01/anti-blackness-latinx-countries-systemic-reinforced-deliberate-cultural-policy/

  1.  Why you should stop saying “all lives matter,” explained in 9 different ways https://www.vox.com/2016/7/11/12136140/black-all-lives-matter?fbclid=IwAR2Hipsd0t4qjpvKNwvRr0yrGMB9HPWMO6TH890BxI_e0wdWziW3zpQis-k 

 

  1.  Behind Closed Doors: 'Colorism' in the Caribbean: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12001750 

  1. We are more: Being Afro-Latina in Philly  https://aldianews.com/articles/local/philadelphia/we-are-more-being-afro-latina-philly/42176 

  1. Racial Construction and Hierarchical Privilege in the Dominican  Republic: https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1131&context=honors_projects 

  1. White Puerto Rican Migration and the Effacement of Blackness http://labprolib.com/white-puerto-rican-migration-and-the-effacement-of-blackness/

 

  1. When it Comes to Latinidad, Who Is Included and Who Isn’t?  https://remezcla.com/features/culture/when-it-comes-to-latinidad-who-is-included-and-who-isnt/ 

 

  1. The Lack of Mobilized Outrage For Police Killing Black Women Is An Injurious Erasure https://www.bustle.com/p/the-lack-of-mobilized-outrage-for-police-killing-black-women-is-injurious-erasure-22953764?fbclid=IwAR0je8iUnWmzhuPCmqBTCm9VMzPqgZussZOq4SX6LlUcn2velqYTSnaA9TU   

  1. The Effects of Skin Color in Latin America: https://www.americasquarterly.org/article/the-effects-of-skin-color-in-the-americas/ 

  1. Why Black Latinos Need to Cancel Latinidad Today: https://www.blackstew.com/2020/06/12/why-black-latinos-need-to-cancel-latinidad-today/?fbclid=IwAR1PtVhfbpE1HRaCOucqB6hfIkbnBI2nxOn0LYJagH5aeRH_FW1m1VyGPRg 

  1. Black Americans are pulled over at higher rates than white people.  https://openpolicing.stanford.edu/findings/ 

 

DOCUMENTARIES/VIDEOS:

  1. Antiracism, Intersectionality and the Struggle for Dignity - Dr Mónica Moreno Figueroa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFRzZQb4lyU 

  1. Dr. Monica Moreno Figueroa YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dr.+monica+figueroa 
  2. NEGRO: A docu-seris about Latinx Identity: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cO-AOpblV1dfy1v98vJGDVceDFQ_T10P/view?usp=sharing

  1. Mujer Negra/Black Woman: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QB8FFi8qi7_laK_BPIswPlc9P-Qk5bqK/view?usp=sharing   

  1. Daily Dash of Diaspora https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/dailydashofdiaspora/ 

  1. Afro Latinas on Amara La Negra, Colorism and Black History | ESSENCE Now Kitchen Table Talk  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UZb3FNBmPQ&t=454s 
  2.  "Afrolatinos: The Untaught Story" - Independent Sources by Renzo Devia  

  1. Race and Racism in Latin America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBNUOsrIiAs 

  1.  Embracing Afro Latin America Culture | Cool Girls Guide | ESSENCE  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIdkxYLzZDY 

  1.  Understanding Afro-Puerto Rican and Other Afro-Latin@ Culture  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTf7sjwd9vY 

  1.  AFRO LATINO STRUGGLES ARE ALL IN MY HEAD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGsiRCdiKeE 
  2.  The Right-Wing Latinos of Miami: Proud Boys and Refugees https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Qa1f29diE&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3lik5v-sDJyPAbSBZ29IVgf4xlfFpGGr1aEfXpIFoN10hQYfcJ9jxxQjs 

 SOCIAL MEDIA:

https://www.instagram.com/radio_cana_negra 

https://www.instagram.com/afrolatinotravel 

https://www.instagram.com/afroresistance/ 

https://www.instagram.com/diasporadash 

https://www.instagram.com/ripeness

https://www.instagram.com/jwpanama/ 

https://www.instagram.com/proyectoafrolatino

https://www.instagram.com/afrolatinofestivalnyc

https://www.instagram.com/lanegraspeaks 

www.instagram.com/famu512 

https://www.instagram.com/negra_with_tumbao/ 

https://www.instagram.com/aintilatina/ 

https://www.instagram.com/bad_dominicana2.0/ 

https://www.instagram.com/elwingbling/ 

https://www.instagram.com/claudio.e.cabrera/ 

https://www.instagram.com/sheismela 

 https://www.instagram.com/migrantscribble/

https://www.instagram.com/natashasalford 

BOOKS:

  1. Racial Subordination in Latin America by Tanya Katerí Hernandez (2012)

  1. Women Warriors of the AfroLatina Diaspora Edited by  Marta Moreno Vega, Marinieves Alba, Yvette Modestin (2012)

  1. Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas (1967)

  1. Child of the Dark by Carolina Maria de Jesus (1960) http://educ.jmu.edu/~vannorwc/assets/ghist%20102-150/pages/readings/childofdark.html 

  1. Afro-Latin America 1800-2000 by George Reid Andrews (2004)

  1. Babalawo by Frank Eyiogbe

  1. "Altar of My Soul: The Living Traditions of Santeria by Marta Moreno Vega

  1. Let Spirit Speak! Cultural Journeys through the African Diaspora Edited  by Vanessa K. Valdes (2012)

  1. Sex Tourism in Bahia  by Erica Lorraine Williams (2013)

  1. Racial Politics in Post-Revolutionary Cuba Mark Q. Sawyer (2006)

  1. People of African Ancestry in Panama 1501-2012 by Melva Lowe de Goodin (2017)

  1. “Any you, Why are you Black” by Ruben H. Bermudez (2018)

  1. The AfroLatin@  Reader Edited by Miriam Jiménez Román, Juan Flores (2009)

  1. Neither Enemies Nor Friends: Latinos, Blacks, Afro-Latinos Edited by Anani Dzidzienyo and Suzanne Obeler (2005)

  1. Rivers of Gold, Lives of Bondage: Governing Through Slavery in Colonial Quito by Sherwin K. Bryant

  1.  The life and Poems of a Cuban Slave by Juan Manzano

  1.  Slave revolts in Puerto Rico: conspiracies and uprisings, 1795-1873 by Guillermo A. Baralt (2007)

  1. Myths of Racial Harmony by Marixa Lasso

 

  1. Race and Ethnicity in Latin America by Peter Wade (1997)

  1. Cultures of Anti-Racism in Latin America and the Caribbean Edited by Peter Wade, James Scorer, Ignacio Aguiló (2019)  

  1.  Playing America’s Game: Baseball, Latinos and the Color Line by Adrian Burgos (2007)

 

  1. Forging Diaspora by Frank Andre Guridy (2010)

  1.   Erased: The Untold Story of the Panama Canal by Marixa Lasso (2019)

  1. Wolf Tracks: Popular Art and Re-Africanization in Twentieth-century Panama by Peter Szok (2012)  

  1. Quince Duncan's Weathered Men and The Four Mirrors: Two Novels of Afro-Costa Rican Identity by Dorothy E Mosby (2018)

  1. Africans in Colonial Mexico: Absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole Consciousness, 1570-1640 Herman Lee Bennett by Herman Lee Bennet (2003)
  2. Are Prisons Obsolete? By Angela Davis https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wEkJ6S4IwR29QjTZmcJ_zQIWUdZIF_Qj/view 

CHILDREN’S BOOKS:

  1. AfroKidz by Gibran Freilla Williams and Janvieve Williams Comrie
  2. Grandma’s Gift by Eric Velasquez
  3. Bad Hair Does Not Exist! by Sulma Arzu  Brown
  4. If Dominican Were A Color by Sili Recio
  5. Ninas Bellas by Dania Peguero
  6. A is for Activist
  7. My Name is Celia/Me llamo Celia: The Life of Celia Cruz/la vida de Celia Cruz by Monica Brown & Rafael Lopez  
  8. Granny Jus Come  
  9. I Know I Can!  By Veronica N. Chapman, Paige Davis, Jonathan Scott Chapman
  10. My Hair Comes With Me by Sulma Arzu-Brown, Mr. Miguel Rodriguez, Mrs. Isidra Sabio
  11. Furqan’s First Flat Top by Robert C. Liu-Trujillo  

DOCUMENTS/PDFS/READERS:

  1. Flash of the Spirit: https://detroitisafrotopia.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/flash-of-the-spirit-african-and-afro-american-art-and-philosophy.pdf 

 

  1. Afro-Pessimism Reader: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UpXVo9cIff-zHePtrvz4MYyOY2OooXdu/view 
  2. Prison Divestment Toolkit for Community Organizers: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17t3dNgT60U4doYZpZWdP9bT81X-NZ2IA/view