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Rio’s Carnival Quilombo

October 19, 2023October 16, 2023 João Gabriel Rabello Sodré and Vítor Antunes Afro-Brazilians, Afro-Latinx, Brazil, Carnival

This post is part of our forum on “Race and Latin America.” Brazil’s Carnival is widely imagined as a locus

Online Roundtable–Lorgia García Peña’s ‘Translating Blackness’

September 5, 2023September 7, 2023 AAIHS Editors #TranslatingBlackness, Afro-Latin, Afro-Latinx

September 11, 2023 to September 15, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting

Black Deaths and Black Mourning in the Time of Coronavirus

April 20, 2020April 19, 2020 Joan Flores-Villalobos Afro-Latin, Afro-Latinx, Caribbean, Latin America, mourning, Panama

That coronavirus (COVID-19) is “the great equalizer” has quickly become an old and tired adage, rightly critiqued by scholars and

‘Racialization works differently here in Puerto Rico, do not bring your U.S.-centric ideas about race here!’

March 3, 2020March 1, 2020 Hilda Lloréns Activism, African Diaspora, Afro-Latin, Afro-Latinx, Afrxlatinidad, black internationalism, Caribbean, Latin America, Puerto Rican history, Puerto Rico, racism

This title is a variation of a statement I have heard during the last two decades as a professional anthropologist.

We are our own Multitude: Los Angeles’ Black Panamanian Community

November 4, 2019November 2, 2019 Jenise Miller #BlackCalifornia, African Diaspora, Afro-Latinx, California, Caribbean, culture, Los Angeles, Panama

*This essay is republished in partnership with Boom California as part of an ongoing series on Black California. On a Saturday