Dioslyn Oliva | Staff Writer Although I appreciate Black History Month, as an Afro-Latina, I want the month to acknowledge and celebrate other Black ethnic groups. Over the past few decades, populations of Afro-Latinos, who are Black people from the Caribbean islands and Latin America, immigrated to the United States. This includes my parents who […]
Gabriela Enamorado/Staff Writer Filling out any paperwork can be confusing as a Latinx. You mark your ethnicity as “Hispanic/Latino” and then they ask you for your race. You think “wait, isn’t my race Hispanic?” This is a common misconception. The terms “Hispanic” and “Latinx” refer to an ethnicity, not a race. Once we recognize this, […]
By Alondra Bodden As a young girl I was always forced to choose a side. Was I black or latina? Which identity would I lean toward, and which identity would shun me? It was a daily struggle at school, I had black friends whom I looked like, and latino friends with whom I identified culturally, […]
