African American - Latino World

In 1829, Mexico's president, Vicente Guerrero, son of an African slave mother, inadvertently spawned a Mexican underground railroad for African-Americans runaways by signing a decree banning ...

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It was 11:00 PM on Friday evening when my plane landed at the Jorge Chávez International Airport in Lima, Perú. I was tired and sleepy after 16 hours of flying and changing planes in Atlant...

http://ahorasecreto.blogspot.com/2020/01/dont-get-played-visiting-latin-america.html

If you state on your résumé that you can speak a foreign language, be prepared because you are likely to be interviewed in that language.  One year, I interviewed for a workforce develop...

http://ahorasecreto.blogspot.com/2020/01/has-your-foreign-language-skills-ever.html

While on vacation in Ecuador, I made an appointment to meet with an Afro-Ecuadorian Studies Consultant at the Simón Bolívar University of the Andes in Quito, the nation's capital. I offere...

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 LATE AFRO-PERUVIAN SINGER PEPE VAZQUEZ    I received the following message in an e-mail from Sean, one of my blog readers, with the following inquiry: >  Good afternoon, Sir: ...

http://ahorasecreto.blogspot.com/2019/07/whats-like-for-black-man-in-peru.html

 REVISTA ÉBANO/EBONY MAGAZINE When I was in Cartagena, Colombia, I could not resist bringing back this souvenir I accidentally found in a black business: South America's EBONY MAGAZINE. Co...

http://ahorasecreto.blogspot.com/2019/04/south-americas-own-ebony-magazine.html

 WEARING MY PERUVIAN T-SHIRT AT A PERUVIAN RESTAURANT EATING PERUVIAN  "SOUL" FOOD WITH THE PERUVIAN NATIONAL DRINK; PISCO SOUR (BRANDY) It all started for me at the age of 10 while living ...

http://ahorasecreto.blogspot.com/2019/04/african-american-latino-world-my-story.html

 TWO BLACK MEN PORTRAYING THEIR PUERTO RICAN PRIDE IN THE ANNUAL PUERTO RICAN DAY PARADE IN NEW YORK Why is it so challenging for so  many people, especially African-Americans and U.S. Lat...

http://ahorasecreto.blogspot.com/2018/12/racial-confusion-among-latinos-african.html

XIX Meeting of Black Villages  Coahuila, México “El Pueblo Unido Jamás Será Vencido!” (THE UNITED VILLAGE WILL NEVER BE DEFEATED!) THIS POST IS CREDITED TO PATRICA ANN TALLEY,...

http://ahorasecreto.blogspot.com/2018/11/black-mexican-towns-hold-annual.html

 CARLOTA LUCUMÍ Thank you AfroLatinidad for sharing ... We African-Americans know about Nat Turner and Denmark Vessey, but their spirit was alive throughout the Caribbean and Latin Ame...

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As the saying goes, "what goes around comes around." Having received so much love visiting Latin America's black communities, it was finally a warm exhilarating experience to return the favor...

http://ahorasecreto.blogspot.com/2018/11/a-return-connection-with-latin-americas.html

My Spanish-Speaking Drill Instructor, Alberto, of  Chincha Alta, Perú    It was my late Mexican-American friend, Yolanda Gutierrez,  who admonished me to learn Latin-American culture...

http://ahorasecreto.blogspot.com/2018/10/when-learning-spanish-learn-some-manners.html

I was fascinated by a CD, "the Soul of Black Perú" that alerted me to this country's black population. And as a lifetime Spanish student seeking to learn about black cultures in Latin Americ...

http://ahorasecreto.blogspot.com/2018/10/sad-ending-with-my-afro-peruvian.html

Hispanic (Latino) Heritage Month, September 15 to October 15, addresses little, if any, of its racial diversity consisting of Asians, Blacks, Indigenous, Jews, Middle Easterners, Whites, and...

http://ahorasecreto.blogspot.com/2018/09/latino-heritage-month-black-pictorial.html

ANY ONE OR ALL THREE OF THESE MEN SPEAK SPANISH AS A FIRST OR SECOND LANGUAGE,  BUT YOU WILL NEVER KNOW BY SIMPLY LOOKING AT THEIR OUTER APPEARANCE. What is it with so many Latinos (and...

http://ahorasecreto.blogspot.com/2018/09/latinos-who-prejudge-blacks.html

In a hot Havana heat in July, I'm chilling out on a mojito, Cuba's national drink. On my first day in Cuba, I learned an object lesson as to how so many bilingual U.S. Latinos feel, when ...

http://ahorasecreto.blogspot.com/2018/08/a-cuban-memory-object-lesson-i-learned.html

CHOWING DOWN ON A PERUVIAN DINNER WITH A  GLASS OF PISCO SOUR, PERÚ'S NATIONAL DRINK Normally, I am very confident and perform impressively during job interviews, but this time, the hirin...

http://ahorasecreto.blogspot.com/2018/08/fast-fun-spanish-development.html

ALONG WITH SPANISH EXPLORERS, MOROCCAN BORN ESTEVÁNICO WAS ONE OF THE FIRST NATIVE AFRICANS TO REACH WHAT LATER BECAME MEXICAN TERRITORY BEFORE THIS TERRITORY WAS TAKEN OVER BY THE UNITED S...

http://ahorasecreto.blogspot.com/2018/08/mexican-independence-day-what-blacks.html

>>  VH1’S LOVE & HIP HOP: MIAMI STAR AMARA LA NEGRA IS FROM THE >>  DOMINICAN REPUBLIC A 19-year old Chicagoan of Afro-Mexican ancestry does not feel fully accepted by his...

http://ahorasecreto.blogspot.com/2018/08/torn-between-black-latino-communities.html

 AT A SUPPER CLUB IN LIMA, PERÚ, A FEMALE PERFORMER CAME  TO MY TABLE TO BRING ME ON STAGE TO DANCE WITH HER. I often get e-mails from my blog readers asking various questions about wh...

http://ahorasecreto.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-black-traveler-asks-about-being-black.html

GRUPO NICHE This is my favorite salsa band of all time with it's lively, yet suave musical style. The word, Niche (pronounced Knee-Chay), in Colombian Spanish, describes the darkest-skinn...

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ON JUNE 3, THERE WAS A GRAND CELEBRATION OF AFRO-PERUVIAN CULTURAL DAY WITH TASTY "COMIDA CRIOLLOS" (PERUVIAN SOUL FOOD), BLACK ARTIFACTS WITH A HOMAGE TO THE MOTHER OF AFRO-PERUVIAN DANCE AN...

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> IN LATIN AMERICA, A BLACK PERSON WITH A FOREIGN PASSPORT AND EUROS, > BRITISH POUNDS, OR AMERICAN OR CANADIAN DOLLARS IS TREATED AS AN > HONORARY “WHITE” PERSO...

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I MISS THE NEW YORK PUERTO RICAN (NUYORICAN) COMMUNITY People often ask me why do I speak Spanish or when they hear me listening to Latin music, they wonder if I am Latino. The answer is ...

http://ahorasecreto.blogspot.com/2018/01/where-have-all-ricans-gone.html

JOSÉ LEANDRO ANDRADE “THE BLACK MARVEL” During the 1920s and 1930s, José Leandro Andrade was highly regarded in his home country, Uruguay, as “Maravilla Negra (the Black Marvel)�...

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