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Peru is diversity – Black and Proud in Peru
The World Bank and Ministry of Culture of Peru
Afro-Peruvians discuss their identities and experiences of racism.
Published September 16, 2013Black + African DiasporaJustice Equity & InclusionLatine/xRacial JusticeVideo -
Kick & Punch
TeleSUR English
A short documentary on the Afro-Ecuadorian Communities of Valle del Chota (parts in English and Spanish).
Published February 26, 2018Black + African DiasporaJustice Equity & InclusionLatine/xRacial JusticeVideo -
Negro: A Docu-Series about Latinx Identity
Dash Harris Machado
The NEGRO docu-series was started in 2010, and explores colonization, the casta system, the African Diaspora, enslavement and human trafficking and the white pathological and racist foundations and current framework of Latinidad. Includes free and paid videos
Black + African DiasporaJustice Equity & InclusionLatine/xRacial JusticeVideoWebsite -
Daily Dash of Diaspora
Dash Harris
A playlist of educational videos that covers Black Latine identities and figures in cultural history.
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¿Qué tiene que ver George Floyd con el Perú?
Sharún Gonzales
(En español) El trato diferenciado basado en la criminalización de los rasgos fenotípicos relacionados con los afrodescendientes es una tendencia minimizada e invisibilizada en el Perú, al lado de otras desigualdades que pasan desapercibidas para aquellos que insisten en una igualdad abstracta entre todos los peruanos.
Published August 6, 2020Black + African DiasporaJustice Equity & InclusionLatine/xRacial JusticeArticle -
Activists Across Latin America Are Marching in Solidarity With ‘Black Lives Matter’ Protests in the US
okayafrica
From Panama, Colombia, Brazil, and El Salvador to Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Puerto Rico, here’s how Afro-Latino activists are uniting in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and in memory of George Floyd.
Published June 15, 2020Black + African DiasporaJustice Equity & InclusionLatine/xRacial JusticeArticle -
Dismantling Anti-Blackness Together
North American Congress on Latin America
Two struggles—Black liberation and immigrant rights—are intertwined and must be confronted together, which means acknowledging there is racism in the project of Latinidad.
Published June 8, 2020Black + African DiasporaJustice Equity & InclusionLatine/xRacial JusticeArticle -
In Panama, a Youth Soccer Group Leads the Charge Against Racism & Economic Impacts of COVID-19
okayafrica
In Curundú, a predominantly Black neighborhood in Panama City, a group of young people are using soccer as a way to come together to fight discrimination and social exclusion—issues which have been exacerbated in recent months by COVID-19.
Published July 15, 2020Black + African DiasporaJustice Equity & InclusionLatine/xRacial JusticeArticle -
No, I’m Not A Proud Latina
Refinery 29
In this personal essay, Dash Harris Machado challenges the concept of Latinidad and why she chooses to honor her Blackness instead.
Published September 29, 2020Black + African DiasporaJustice Equity & InclusionLatine/xRacial JusticeArticle -
Non-Black People of Color Need to Start Having Conversations About the Anti-Blackness in Our Communities
Sharon Park
This guide is written to serve as a starting point for how non-Black people of color can engage in conversation regarding the anti-Blackness within our respective communities.
Published June 2, 2020Arab + SWANABlack + African DiasporaIndigenousJustice Equity & InclusionLatine/xRacial JusticeArticleToolkit/Guide -
Know Your Rights: Crime Victims with Disabilities (Listening Session)
The Arc
This session addresses three key rights: your right to live free from violence; your right to get help and support after victimization; and your right to speak your truth for yourself and for other crime victims with disabilities.
Published November 29, 2001Accessibility + Disability JusticeJustice Equity & InclusionLatine/xLegalRacial JusticeSexual + Gender-Based ViolenceVideo -
Latinx: The New Force in American Politics and Culture
Ed Morales
Ed Morales explains how Latinx political identities are tied to a long Latin American history of mestizaje, translatable as “mixedness” or “hybridity”, and that this border thinking is both a key to understanding Latinx cultures and a challenge to America’s infamously black–white racial regime.
Published September 1, 2018Justice Equity & InclusionLatine/xRacial JusticeBook