New Pittsburgh Courier: While many of us were glued to the stylish red carpet looks from this year’s SAG awards, a different moment was simultaneously happening off to the side– actress Gina Rodriguez was calling out Hollywood for their lack of Latinx representation in film.
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This struggle is near and dear to my heart. I am of the firm belief that all black people who were and are effected by the African Diaspora deserve the a space in black media and art. They deserve to reclaim black culture and history the same way that black people who were brought to the US for slavery do. Gina Rodriguez is from el barrio in Chicago which is incredibly similar to the hood which I and many of my friends are from. Though there are obvious cultural differences between the phenomenons of el barrio and the hood they are incredibly similar.
The cultural appropriation debate also comes into question. Bruno Mars is a black man of Puerto Rican descent, among other things, yet there are many other black people would argue that his music is appropriating black culture. The diaspora effects and impacts all black people and thus all black people need to band together. African slaves were first brought to the Caribbean and that must be recognized when talking about the cultural disparity between black people whose families were brought to the United States and black people who were brought to any place that qualified as Nueva Espana and even Brazil.
Afro-Latinx visibility is in my opinion integral to explaining the difference between race and ethnicity. Afro-Latinx people are a prime example that you can be black and be any ethnicity.
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