Bianca Laureano (@BiancaLaureano) has started culling contributions by blatinos (my word for Latinegros) in a Tumblr blog. Here's the description:
As the formal US focus on Black History Month (February 1-28/9) is upon us we seek to celebrate all of the peoples who have influence and history via the African Diasporas. Expanding the inclusively of Black History Month is a goal for several of us, self-identified LatiNeg@s, Afro-Latinos and Afro-Caribeños. As people who recognize and claim the African heritage and history, we have often been excluded from US History, whether it be Black history or Latino history (Septermber 15-October 15). Join us in honoring and recognizing LatiNegr@s this year during Black and Latino History Month. We are Black, Latino and from the Caribbean. We REPRESENT!
Please share any images, videos, quotes, websites, links etc. you'd like to include on this page. Go to http://lati-negros.tumblr.com/submit to submit what you'd like to contribute.
Am more than happy to oblige with samples from 6 of the almost 10 years I have been blogging. This is not all of it, follow the keyword links at the bottom of each post to find more artciles in the archives:
Condoleezza Rice, a Sally Hemmings for the 21st Century
My claim to infamy.
Condoleeza Rice and Colin Powell are proof Race is a side-show on the road to Empire
BushCo's dexterity at race sock puppetry.
A little piece of history in my braids
Of course, it's about hair.
Black mother, white child
Miscegenation FTMFW!
Happy birthday to me!
A thank you to my mother's little black power revolution.
To Peter Daou and the DailyKos crowd, there are no black bloggers in New York City or Harlem
Whereas I call out the shenanigans of certain people in the netroots.
Black and White and Brown and Mixed Like Me
In which I wrongly forecast that Obama wouldn't win the presidency.
On why I hate Hispanic Heritage Month
Whereas I weigh in on the Latino vs. Hispanic debate.
Divide and Conquer : Obama and the Latino Vote in the NY Times
Pitting Latinos, black or otherwise, against African Americans is a USA past-time.
The Oppression Olympics
The 2008 Democratic primaries explained.
I look forward to the day when "Latinos", not Hispanics, are the majority in the United States
A reminder that "hispanic" denies our negritude.
Fear of a Black Planet, the "I hate that negro because he has class" edition
There are no racists in mainstream media.
The audacity of biracial hope
Not just a negro but a mulatto in the White House.
Blanquito vs. Latino or the unbearable lightness of being Alberto Gonzales
White as a pejorative and a metaphor.
To the people complaining about the lack of people of color at #PDF09
Just STFU and do something about it.
Texas State Rep. Betty Brown asks Asians why they can't have names like hers
Bigoted lawmaker or misunderstood linguist?
The black Harvard professor, the white Cambridge cop and Officer Carlos Figueroa
On everyday racial sock-puppetry.
We need a multi-ethnic, multi-racial, multi-lingual cultural revolution
After Haiti.
It's February 1st: Do you know where your negritude is?
A reminder that US Americans do not have ownership of blackness.






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