Afro-latina

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.

“Your guard, she is Afro-Latina. I can see it in her,” my client said, then glanced my way. “Is everything good, young man?” Oya was Brazilian, black, and Portuguese, so he wasn’t wrong.

But, unlike Esperanza and Julia, Xiomara is not Chicana; she is Afro-Latina and a poet, a young girl we seldom see represented in popular culture […]

Claiming blackness allows her to connect her experience to other Afro-Latinas and have experiences of difference acknowledged.

Some of the distributional similarities between Afro-Latinas and other female demographic groups, including white and African American women, include “pink-collar job” crowding: […]

Due to their gender, Black/Afro-Latinas are considered more threatening to the family racial character than Black/Afro-Latino fathers as they are expected to be physically and emotionally present in the lives of their offspring more so than fathers.