Afro Latinos in African American Culture

Rapper, Juelz Santana, actress, Zoe Saldana, and athlete, Carmelo Anthony; we've seen them on television or heard them on the radio, and looked at them, without doubt, deeming them African American....but did you know that they are really Afro Latino? This week’s blog is about Afro Latinos in African American culture. I’m going to be talking about people like Zoe Saldana and Carmelo Anthony who, today, play a significant role in African American culture and are Afro Latino. Through the discipline of culture studies and the discipline of history, I'll attempt to prove that Afro Latinos and African American are connected.

After researching this connection, my question for you to think about is why don’t people want to acknowledge the relation between African American culture and Afro Latinos? Why is it that people still prefer that there be a distinction between African Americans and Afro Latinos?

 

Works Cited

Burgos, Adrian Jr. "Left Out". Duke University Press. 2009

Domino-Rudolph, Jennifer. "Pidieron Cacao: Latinidad and Black Identity in the Reggaeton of Don Omar".Centro Journal. 2011.

Paposwiggity. Perdomo, Willie. "Nigger-Reecan Blues". Youtube. 2010