by Eduardo Garcia | Aug 2, 2021 | Documentary | Long-Form Video, Media
Black in Latin America ” Black In Latin America, examines how Africa and Europe came together to create the rich cultures of Latin America and the Caribbean. Black in Latin America is a four-part documentary on Haiti–Dominican Republic, Cuba Brazil, and...
by Eduardo Garcia | Aug 2, 2021 | Documentary | Long-Form Video, Media
Jamaica and Tamarindo: Afro Tradition in the Heart of Mexico The jamaica flower and tamarind are iconic ingredients in Mexico, but their history comes from a place much further away. In JAMAICA AND TAMARINDO: AFRO TRADITION IN THE HEART OF MEXICO, we meet five people...
by Eduardo Garcia | Aug 2, 2021 | Documentary | Long-Form Video, Media
Cimarrón Spirit: Afro-Dominican Maroon Culture “In the Dominican Republic, as early as 1512, African slaves escaped from Spanish plantations and lived with the island’s Taino Indians or on their own in mountainous jungles in the remote frontier land of...
by Eduardo Garcia | Aug 2, 2021 | Media, Photography
#blaxicansofla Walter Luis Thompson-Hernández’s Instagram project titled Blaxicans of LA @BlaxicansofLA was created as part of his research on the subject. The hashtag Blaxicans of LA: #blacxicansofla captures some of the posts on Instagram that emerged as a...
by Eduardo Garcia | Jul 31, 2021 | News
Why Lorgia García Peña Was Denied Tenure at Harvard An Afro-Latinx professor who taught Latinx studies at Harvard was denied tenure at the university. This occurred even though she created “a Latinx-studies secondary field and area of focus, and collected...
by Eduardo Garcia | Jul 31, 2021 | Books
The Afro-Latin@ reader: History and Culture in the United States “A kaleidoscopic view of Black Latin@s in the United States, addressing history, music, gender, class, and media representations in more than sixty selections, including essays, memoirs, journalism,...
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