Introduction
People of Latin American descent who have migrated to the United States, or are descendants of Latin Americans living and working in the United States.
Who are Latinos/as/xs?
True or False: white latinos experience more discrimination and segregation than Black Latinos (Katerí-Hernandez)
What is False?
The "x" in Latinx was introduced on social media to represent this group of people in the Latino community.
What is non-binary Latinxs?
"They are people of African descent in Mexico, Central and South America, and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, and by extension those of African descent in the United States whose origins are in Latin America and the Caribbean" (Jimenez-Román and Flores).
Who are Afro-Latinos/as/xs?
True or False: Latino is a race.
What is false?
Title of the speech (or essay) written by José Vasconcelos delineating ideas of white supremacy via racial miscegenation in Latin America.
Black feminism and Latina feminisms have often not acknowledged this kind of feminism due to not acknowledging the African Diaspora as multilingual or the presence of Black people in Latin America.
What is Afro-Latinx feminisms?
AfroLatina Garifuna New Yorker, writer and Latinx media expert
Who is Janel Martinez?
Title of the Documentary that explores the political events, social conditions and U.S. government actions that led millions of Latin Americans to leave their homelands and move to the United States.
What is Harvest of Empire?
What is mestizaje?
Queer Latinx scholar whose work has been important to our understanding of Latinx queer studies and the negotiation between queerness and Latinidad that happens.
Who is Jose E. Muñoz?
Afro-Latina poet and author of "The Poet X"
Who is Elizabeth Acevedo?
Name of the director of the documentary that explores the political events, social conditions and U.S. government actions that led millions of Latin Americans to leave their homelands and move to the United States.
Who is Juan Gonzalez?
Who is Alan Pelaez Lopez?
Latina Sociologist at Wayne State University author of "Crossed out by Latinx"
Who is Nicole Trujillo-Pagán
Group of people who are Afro-descendant and indigenous initially from the island of St. Vincent and then forced out to the Central American coast.
Who are Garifunas?
Author of the following statement:
"If the term “Latinidad” emerged most strongly in literary studies as an abstract signifier that remitted us to the condition of being Latina/o, today it is more strongly anchored in the social, everyday realities of our diasporic communities and in the spaces populated by Latinas/os of various nationalities, generations, immigrant statuses, and racial and gender identities."
Who is Frances Aparicio?
This concept is meant to be descriptive of the survival strategies the minority subject practices in order to negotiate a phobic majoritarian public sphere that continuously elides or punishes the existence of subjects who do not conform to the phantasm of normative citizenship.
What is disidentification?
True or False: The article "What's in an X? An Exchange about the Politics of ‘Latinx’” edited by Catalina Kathleen M. deOnís demonstrates a debate about the use of the "X"amongst scholars. Particularly its concern with: racism, language, and inclusivity.
A phrase that Juan Flores and Miriam Jimenez-Román borrow from Franz Fanon's "the fact of Blackness" to describe the lived social and phenomenological reality of being Black and Latino.
What is "The fact of Afro-Latinidad"?