Afro-Latina en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- [ˌæfɹoʊ̯ləˈtʰinə] (General-American)
- [ˌa̠fɹo̞la̠ˈt̪ina̠] Puerto Rico, Latino
- /ˌæfɹoʊləˈtinə/ (General-American)
- /ˌɛːfɹʌʊləˈtinə/ African-American Vernacular
- /ˌafroːlaˈtiːna/ (Caribbean)
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Etymology
From Afro- + Latina.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of mixed African and Latina descent.
“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.
2018, Brick & Storm, Eraserheads: A Hood Misfits Novel, Urban Books, →ISBN: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 […]
2022, Trevor Boffone, Cristina Herrera, Latinx Teens: U.S. Popular Culture on the Page, Stage, and Screen, The University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, pages 78–79: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.
2016, Petra R. Rivera-Rideau, Jennifer A. Jones, Tianna S. Paschel, editors, Afro-Latin@s in Movement: Critical Approaches to Blackness and Transnationalism in the Americas, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 157:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afrolatina | alternative | lexicographic | |
| AfroLatina | alternative | lexicographic |