365 Days of Latino Heritage

Latino Heritage Month has been commodified and commercialized with the real meaning behind heritage and history lost in a push to make Latinos spend and make us a brand. We are not a brand. We are not a marketing demographic. We are a complex mescla of people, culturas y lenguas.

Originally this started as a project for Latino Heritage Month, 2009 pero because our lives as Latinos, Latin Americans and the other names we respond to in our hearts are live every day, this is 365 days of Latino heritage.

Compiled and Curated
By Maegan la Mamita Mala Ortiz of VivirLatino
larepublicadedetroit:

The Afro-Latin@ Forum is pleased to host “Afro-Latin@s Now! Strategies  for Visibility and Action,” a three-day international conference that  will gather scholars, community leaders and artists to advance a  dialogue on issues of importance to Black Latin@s in the United States  as well as foster positive relations between Latin@s, African Americans  and other peoples of color. 
Among our institutional partners in this  endeavor are the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The Center for the Humanities of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, El Museo del Barrio, and the W.E.B.Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. 
The goal of the conference will be to promote dialogue and mutual  understanding amongst and between Afro-Latin@s, the broader Latin@ and  African American populations, and the general public including other  peoples of color. 
We aim to expand and solidify the widening network of  educators and activists working on related themes, and to begin defining  the key educational and policy issues that bear on the recognition and  empowerment of this largely overlooked and underserved population. 
For more info click here!
Also, please share your stories with Afro-Latino identity!
Would you like to donate to the cause? If so, click here!
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larepublicadedetroit:

The Afro-Latin@ Forum is pleased to host “Afro-Latin@s Now! Strategies for Visibility and Action,” a three-day international conference that will gather scholars, community leaders and artists to advance a dialogue on issues of importance to Black Latin@s in the United States as well as foster positive relations between Latin@s, African Americans and other peoples of color.

Among our institutional partners in this endeavor are the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The Center for the Humanities of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, El Museo del Barrio, and the W.E.B.Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.

The goal of the conference will be to promote dialogue and mutual understanding amongst and between Afro-Latin@s, the broader Latin@ and African American populations, and the general public including other peoples of color.

We aim to expand and solidify the widening network of educators and activists working on related themes, and to begin defining the key educational and policy issues that bear on the recognition and empowerment of this largely overlooked and underserved population.

For more info click here!

Also, please share your stories with Afro-Latino identity!

Would you like to donate to the cause? If so, click here!

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