Ep.24 "The African in You They Tried to Erase"

Hello my beautiful people, now that we as a society are discussing and confronting anti-blackness in our society and cultures, we thought it would be an appropriate time for us to dissect and question this very issue. In "The African in You They Tried to Erase", we highlight the history of both Afro-Mexicans and Afro-Colombians and how in the world it took a pandemic, national wide protests and the Afro-Latinx movement for us to talk about the importance of black people in our cultures. Take a shot every time we sigh, yell, and stumble on our words in disbelief on what we found - we got really passionate! We also added a link in our linktree for all things Black Lives Matter, so go check that out!

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Articles mentioned:

Kendy- “The Untold History of Afro-Mexicans, Mexico's Forgotten Ethnic Group” by Lauren Cocking https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/mexico/articles/the-untold-history-of-afro-mexicans-mexicos-forgotten-ethnic-group/

“Afro-Mexicans Fight for Visibility and Recognition” by Jonathan Custodio https://pulitzercenter.org/reporting/afro-mexicans-fight-visibility-and-recognition

Fannie Lou Hamer - "While having surgery in 1961 to remove a tumor, 44-year-old Hamer was also given a hysterectomy without consent by a white doctor; this was a frequent occurrence under Mississippi's compulsory sterilization plan to reduce the number of poor blacks in the state. Hamer is credited with coining the phrase 'Mississippi appendectomy' as a euphemism for the involuntary or uninformed sterilization of black women, common in the South in the 1960s" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fannie_Lou_Hamer

Rocio- NAACP factsheet https://www.naacp.org/criminal-justice-fact-sheet/

Afro-Colombiano https://minorityrights.org/minorities/afro-colombians/

You get an article! You get an article and YOU get an article! https://www.oprahmag.com/life/a23522259/afro-latina-identity/

Music: A million thanks to CJ for our new intro and outro! Go check him out - https://www.instagram.com/1ofurfriends/