Important People
This man was a famous freed slave who led attacks on the Spanish, and was granted his own independent town in exchange for peace.
Who is Gasper Yanga?
This mexican dance combines Spanish, Indigenous, and African traditions?
What is Fandango?
This Mexican city has the highest concentration of black people in the country.
What is Costa Chica?
Brought by the Spanish, this decimated the indigenous populations in both Mexico and Peru, prompting the Spanish conquistadors to import thousands of African slaves in their place.
What is disease?
This is a mexican term used to refer to a mexican with African heritage.
This black painter portrayed Peruvian society through the lens of a black person, becoming a big inspiration to Afroperuvians today.
Who is Pancho Fierro?
This Puerto Rican dish is very similar to the traditional African dish, Fufu.
What is Mofongo?
This town, founded by runaway slaves in the early 17th century, is believed to be the first settlement in the Americas established by free black people.
What is Yanga?
This is the only Latin American country to have apologized to its black citizens.
This cartoon character was a racist, black caricature popularized in Mexico.
Who is Memin Pinguin?
This black general saw the Mexican War of Independence to its conclusion, abolished slavery in Mexico, and was the 2nd President of Mexico.
Who is Vicente Guerrero?
This form of art was the main way that Afro-Latino history and traditions were conveyed and expressed.
What is El Carmen?
At the height of slavery, this percent of Lima, Peru was black.
What is 30-40% ?
This is the term for when Afro-Latinos identify themselves as both Black and Latino as citizens and culturally.
This Grammy-winning, Afroperuvian musician seeks to encourage Afroperuvian pride through her music.
Who is Susana Baca?
This musical group is considered the Jackson 5 of Afroperuvian music.
Established in the 16th century, this Mexican town became a major trading center for sugar, cotton, cattle, and horses.
What is Tlacotalpan?
This is the name of the voyage in which millions of enslaved Africans were transported.
What is the Middle Passage?
This radio show, by Israel Reyes, was created to promote Afro-Mexican pride, and force the country to recognize the rights of its black citizens.
What is Cimarron: The Voice of the Afromestizos?
This group of people settled in Spain for over 800 years, contributing to the tendency of race mixing between Indigenous, Spanish, and African people.
Who are the Moors?
Located in Peru, this painting, by an Angolan slave, inspired one of the largest religious processions in all of Latin America.
What is "the Lord of the Miracles?"
This Mexican port was the main port for slavery in Latin America.
What is the Port of Veracruz?
When the Toro de Petate Dance is done in Afro-Latino communities, the "toro" symbolizes this to Black Mexicans?
What is "freedom from slavery"?
This essay embraced the racial diversity in Mexico, launching a “brown pride” movement in Mexico.
What is "The Cosmic Race?"