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							<title>Natasha S. Alford&#8217;s Debut Memoir Explores Afro-Latinidad and Belonging</title>
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															<description><![CDATA[Afro-Latina journalist Natasha S. Alford discusses her new memoir 'American Negra.']]></description>
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							<title>My Estranged Dad Was Puerto Rican But I Don&#8217;t Feel Latina Enough</title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2022 22:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[I didn’t know I had Latinx roots until I was in my pre-teens. My older sister always told me that my biological father was Puerto Rican, but I thought she was making fun of me because I was light skinned. My sister is dark skinned and she always told me I was adopted because we]]></description>
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							<title>How I Learned to Embrace My Blackness as a Dominican Woman</title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2019 18:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[I have always considered myself a proud Dominican woman. As I&#8217;ve gotten older, I&#8217;ve had the opportunity to learn about the complex history of my people. Many Dominicans can trace their roots back to countries in West or Central Africa, Spain, and to the Tainos that lived on the island before Europeans colonized it. However,]]></description>
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							<title>Why We Need To Stop Referring To Afro-Latinxs as &#8216;Other Latinxs&#8217;</title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2018 12:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[Being Black in a Latinx space is by design an othering experience. Just how melaninated you are, or tight and course your curls are, will determine which questions get funneled your way. As an adult, I now know these attempts to quantify how Latina I am and even validate my existence in said spaces are disrespectful]]></description>
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							<title>What It Means To Be a Black Latina in Higher Education</title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2018 17:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[I have been asserting my blackness since I can remember. Growing up in the mountains of Puerto Rico, my curls —“pelo malo,”as friends called it—betrayed my family’s attempts to claim whiteness by invoking our Spanish great grandfather. Why would my grandmother, who loved me deeply, say that my hair “does not come from our side]]></description>
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							<title>Afro-Latina vs. Negra: 5 Black Women of Latin American Descent Share How They Identify</title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2018 17:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[&#160; Identity is layered. With the evolution of terminologies and expansion of definitions, it’s complex and far from static. For our community, it’s no different as we’ve seen terms like Hispanic, Latino and now Latinx originate within the last 50 years. The latter, Latinx, became Merriam-Webster-official at the top of September, which signified a moment]]></description>
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							<title>Azealia Banks, Cardi B and Why Respectability Politics Need to be Retired</title>
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							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Johanna Ferreira]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2018 18:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[Cardi B is from the Bronx. She’s half Afro-Dominican and half Trinidadian and she’s always been proud to be both black and from the hood, which is why it was especially upsetting when Azealia Banks tried to put her down during an appearance on the popular radio program “The Breakfast Club”—and even went as far]]></description>
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