Not enough Hispanic-Latino, and not enough Black. Afro-Latinos are often made to feel like outsiders by the biases of communities who force them to choose one identity over the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the past ten years, the number of people across the country who identify as Black and Hispanic-Latino has increased 11.6 percent, according to a CNN analysis of census data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201dIt hasn’t been easier for me to say that I am Afro-Latino because Latinos themselves don’t accept the term Afro-Latino. Because we do not accept that we are Afro-descendants,\u201d said Yvette Modestin, founder and director of Encuentro Diaspora Afro in an interview<\/a> with NHPR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Modestin was born in Colon, Panama. A writer and activist who focuses on the Afro-descendant experience in Latin America, Modestin came to Boston as a student.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAfro-Latinos\u201d is a term barely known in the Hispanic-Latino community because of its rejection of Blackness. Modestin said Hispanic-Latinos often forget this population is a part of the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the 15th and 16th centuries, many people of African<\/a> origin were brought to the Americas<\/a> by the Spanish<\/a> and Portuguese<\/a>. Those who were directly from West Africa mostly arrived in Latin America as part of the Atlantic slave trade<\/a>, as agricultural, domestic, and menial laborers and as mineworkers. The Caribbean and South America received 95 percent of the Africans arriving in the Americas with only 5 percent going to Northern America<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cImmigrant Latinos are walking in this country free and with rights [because] of the African American civil movement,\u201d Modesin said. But the exclusion is not only from Hispanic-Latinos. Some African Americans also see Afro-Latino people as not belonging. Modestin says during the Black Lives Matter protests, Afro-Latinos felt displaced from the cause. Some didn\u2019t embrace it because they didn\u2019t recognize their own Black life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The term Afro-Latino traces to the 1970s, when Black activists in Brazil sparked a social political movement to fight for recognition in the country’s census because Brazil — at the time — did not recognize its Black citizens in the census, said Solsiree Del Moral, a professor at Amherst College<\/a> who studies Latin America and the Caribbean modern history told<\/a> CNN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Created in 2004, Encuentro Diaspora Afro provides a space for Afro-Latinos and all people of African descent to explore and embrace their complex and multiple socio-political identities across the U.S. and throughout the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some of the young people Modestin works with are from families who tell them to not present themselves as Black so people don\u2019t mistreat them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ultimately, defining what it means to be Afro-Latino is personal. \u201cI have stood in front of Latinos, and they are the ones who question me the most,\u201d Modestin said. \u201cRacism within the Latino community is such a painful thing,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Publisher\u2019s Note: This story is an aggregate from NHPR and CNN.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Cover Photo Credit: AMPLIFY LATINXtggt c c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Not enough Hispanic-Latino, and not enough Black. 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