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Afro-Latina en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • [ˌæfɹoʊ̯ləˈtʰinə] (General-American)
  • [ˌa̠fɹo̞la̠ˈt̪ina̠] Puerto Rico, Latino
  • /ˌæfɹoʊləˈtinə/ (General-American)
  • /ˌɛːfɹʌʊləˈtinə/ African-American Vernacular
  • /ˌafroːlaˈtiːna/ (Caribbean)
  • (US) audio

Etymology

From Afro- + Latina.

Meanings

  1. (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

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
Afrolatina alternative lexicographic
AfroLatina alternative lexicographic

Afro-Latina en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • [ˌæfɹoʊ̯ləˈtʰinə] (General-American)
  • [ˌa̠fɹo̞la̠ˈt̪ina̠] Puerto Rico, Latino
  • /ˌæfɹoʊləˈtinə/ (General-American)
  • /ˌɛːfɹʌʊləˈtinə/ African-American Vernacular
  • /ˌafroːlaˈtiːna/ (Caribbean)
  • (US) audio

Etymology

From Afro- + Latina.

Meanings

  1. A woman of mixed African and Latina descent.
    • Due to their gender, Black/Afro-Latinas are considered more threatening to the family racial character than Black/Afro-Latino fathers as they are expected to be physically and emotionally present in the lives of their offspring more so than fathers. 2022, Wendi S. Williams, editor, WE Matter!: Intersectional Anti-Racist Feminist Interventions with Black Girls and Women, Routledge, →ISBN:
    • Claiming blackness allows her to connect her experience to other Afro-Latinas and have experiences of difference acknowledged. 2015, Rachel Afi Quinn, “This Bridge Called the Internet: Black Lesbian Feminist Activism in Santo Domingo”, in Cheryl R. Rodriguez, Dzodzi Tsikata, Akosua Adomako Ampofo, editors, Transatlantic Feminisms: Women and Gender Studies in Africa and the Diaspora, Lexington Books, →ISBN, section I (Feminist Politics and the Politics of “Black” Feminisms, page 34:
    • Some of the distributional similarities between Afro-Latinas and other female demographic groups, including white and African American women, include “pink-collar job” crowding: […] 2021, Michelle Holder, Alan A. Aja, Afro-Latinos in the U.S. Economy, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 90:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
AfroLatina alternative lexicographic
Afro-Latinas Number=Plur lexicographic
Afrolatina alternative lexicographic

Coordinates

Afro-Latino · Afro-Latinx