Latinx communities’ anti-Blackness makes AfroLatinx members feel inferior and unwanted.

Evidence

Both articles emphasize the experiences with anti-AfroLatinidad, in which Blackness is rejected within the Latinx communities (Salas Pujols, 2022; García-Louis and Cortes, 2023). This includes experiencing microaggressions and a lack of discussion of Afro- Latinidad in family and school spaces. Rejection of Blackness from their Latinx community caused feelings of inferiority, undesirability, and not belonging to their community. — Tatiana I. Zamora and Amado M. Padilla, Making sense of conflicting messages of…, 110

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Mixed-race blackness in fiction destabilizes Latinx categories that deny blackness. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2486; AfroLatinx students excluded from Latinx spaces find refuge in affirming Black counter spaces. — Tatiana I. Zamora and Amado M. Padilla, Making sense of conflicting messages of…, 112; Antillean Negrophobia stems from equating blackness with immorality via ‘ethical transit’ — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 671 (+8 more)

Broader Connections