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8 Authors Bringing Afro-Latina Stories to the Forefront

Rebecca J. Garcia — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 22:06:49 +0000

Afro-Latinos have always formed part of the Latino narrative – even if they are regularly left out of the conversation. During the transatlantic slave trade, 90 percent of Africans were brought to the Caribbean and South America. Today, about a quarter of US Latinos identifies as Afro-Latinos. The term “Afro-Latino” emerged in the 1970s in

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10 Books With Well-Developed, Complex Afro-Latino Characters

Rebecca J. Garcia — Mon, 21 Aug 2017 16:47:59 +0000

Twenty years ago, Junot Díaz vowed to write a children’s book for his goddaughters – two Dominican girls living in the Bronx, who never saw themselves or their experiences in the stories they read. In the two decades that it took him to fulfill his promise (his book Islandborn, which has an Afro-Latina main character, is due spring

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