Afro-latina
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A woman of mixed African and Latina descent.
"Claiming blackness allows her to connect her experience to other Afro-Latinas and have experiences of difference acknowledged."
- 1 Of mixed African and Latina descent. not-comparable
"In this respect, [Maymie] De Mena continually negotiates the complex intersections of Eurocentric constructions of “respectable” women’s behavior and roles, in the context of expectations about black women’s uncontrolled sexuality, and “redemptive” discourses about people in the not-yet postcolonial African diaspora. Yet she does so from a unique Afro-Latina and moreover Central American perspective."
Example
More examples"In this respect, [Maymie] De Mena continually negotiates the complex intersections of Eurocentric constructions of “respectable” women’s behavior and roles, in the context of expectations about black women’s uncontrolled sexuality, and “redemptive” discourses about people in the not-yet postcolonial African diaspora. Yet she does so from a unique Afro-Latina and moreover Central American perspective."
Etymology
From Afro- + Latina.
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