Are Black Puerto Ricans Black Enough?

Wed29Aug2007

Are Black Puerto Ricans Black Enough?

09:26 H | Topics: Internet - Puerto Rico - Race

Last year Rican readers of VL were all up in arms about Rosie Perez's documentary and the "blackness" of the AfroRican/black Ricans and Ricans in general. Liza from Culture Kitchen discusses blackness in Puerto Rico and explains what the hell trigueño actually means on NPR.

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1. Latino Pundit ~ Wednesday, Aug 29 2007 | 16:01H:

Sad how some readers don't get the African/Latino ties. They do get it but, I see the readers had a problem w/ Black American Vs. Black African. And that's a culture thing, which ultimately translates into a we are not like them mentality.

I posted something today about how our Afro/Latino education is severely lacking. Later today another post addresses the same post.

2. Mario ~ Wednesday, Aug 29 2007 | 18:40H:

As I stated previously, Latino is a culture rather than an ethnicity.

3. Ramón ~ Thursday, Aug 30 2007 | 11:04H:

The correct spelling is trigueño/a - not trigeño.
[e] preceeded by [g] produces an [h] sound in Spanish, such as geografía.

4. Maegan la Mala ~ Thursday, Aug 30 2007 | 12:50H:

Fair enough! Gracias.

5. corey ~ Thursday, Mar 13 2008 | 11:14H:

no your incorrect latino is not a race but it is an ethnicity/ethnic group with as a whole a shared culture/language unless ur brazillian.

6. Maegan la Mala Ortiz ~ Thursday, Mar 13 2008 | 12:39H:

You are right, Latino is not a race. Latinos can be and are of many races but Latinos are racialized in this country and that cannot be ignored.

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