Many Latinxs, especially from younger generations, have come out strongly in support of the movement for Black Lives. For many, they’ve approached this activism from a model of Black-Brown solidarity. But where does this model leave Afro-Latinxs? In this episode we interrogate the question: what is wrong with those signs that say Latinxs for Black Lives?

Karma R. Chávez is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at UT.

Paul Joseph López Oro will start a position as an assistant professor at Smith College this fall. He teaches courses on Black Latin American and U.S. Black Latinx social movements, Black diaspora theories and ethnographies, and Black feminisms/queer theory. His research interests include Black politics in Latin America, the Caribbean and U.S. AfroLatinidades, Black Latinx LGBTQ movements and performances, and Black transnationalism. He is working on his first book manuscript, Hemispheric Black Indigeneity: The Queer Politics of Self-Making Garifuna New York, an ethnographic and oral history study on how gender and sexuality shape the ways in which Garifuna New Yorkers of Central American transgenerational descent negotiate, perform and articulate their multiple subjectivities as Black, indigenous and Latinx.

Twitter
Karma: @QueerMigrations
Pablo: @BlackCatrachoBK

Resources
Gentefied’s Julissa Calderon: “It’s Time for Latinxs to Step up for Black Lives Matter”

The Latino Community Is Finally Coming to Grips With Its Own Racism

Latinos must confront ‘ingrained’ anti-black racism amid George Floyd protests, some urge

Afro-Latin@s in Movement: Critical Approaches to Blackness and Transnationalism in the Americas

Neither Enemies nor Friends: Latinos, Blacks, Afro-Latinos

The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States

Theorizing Race in the Americas: Douglass, Sarmiento, Du Bois, and Vasconcelos