Caras Lindas

Manuel Mendez, Gyselle Garcia

“Caras Lindas” means beautiful faces in Spanish. It’s a popular Afro Latino song describing all the beautiful faces in Latin America. On Caras Lindas, hosts Manuel Mendez and Gyselle Garcia explore the intersection of blackness in Latinx communities by shedding light on the neglected and untold stories of Afro-Latinx people.

Episodes

  1. 11/29/2021

    Journey Mom: Natasha Rodriguez

    Notes and References  Articles: Community And Belonging: Bridging The Americas  http://cdi.anacostia.si.edu/2015/04/21/community-and-belonging-bridging-the-americas/ Majority of Latinos say Skin Color Impacts Opportunity in America and Shapes Daily Life https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2021/11/04/majority-of-latinos-say-skin-color-impacts-opportunity-in-america-and-shapes-daily-life/ Latinidad Through an African American Lens  https://www.blacklatinasknow.org/post/latinidad-through-an-african-american-lens Enter The Post Panamax World  http://cdi.anacostia.si.edu/2016/06/29/enter-the-post-panamax-world/ Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum Exhibition Examines Connections between Metro DC Panamanians and Panama https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/smithsonian-s-anacostia-community-museum-exhibition-examines-connections-between-metro-dc-p Latinos find that darker skin hurts their chances of getting ahead https://www.npr.org/2021/11/04/1052593455/latinos-darker-skin-colorism-discrimination Skin-Color Prejudice and Within-Group Racial Discrimination: Historical and Current Impact on Latino/a Population https://www.utep.edu/liberalarts/george-floyd/Skin-Color-Prejudice.pdf The Spectacle of Latinx Colorism  https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/30/opinion/latino-racism-colorism-latinx.html Journey Mom articles: My Hair Speaks Volumes  https://journeymom.com/f/my-hair-speaks-volumes Black Boy Mom https://journeymom.com/f/black-boy-mama The Middle Child  https://journeymom.com/f/the-middle-child Books:  Curtis, Ariana Alyce. 2018. "Identity as Profession: on Becoming an African American Panamanian Afro-Latina Anthropologist Curator." in Pan African Spaces: Essays on Black Transnationalism, edited by Clark, Msia Kibona, Mnyandu, Phiwokuhle, and Azalia, Loy L., 259-270. Lexington Books. Gibbings, Julie A. Review of Blacks and Blackness in Central America: Between race and place ed. by Lowell Gudmundson and Justin Wolfe, and: Labor and Love in Guatemala: The eve of independence, by Catherine Komisaruk. Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, vol. 15 no. 2, 2014. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/cch.2014.0025. Oral History: Arturo Griffiths  History of First Latin American Festival on the Mall: 1989-1990 http://hdl.handle.net/1961/dcplislandora:297084

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“Caras Lindas” means beautiful faces in Spanish. It’s a popular Afro Latino song describing all the beautiful faces in Latin America. On Caras Lindas, hosts Manuel Mendez and Gyselle Garcia explore the intersection of blackness in Latinx communities by shedding light on the neglected and untold stories of Afro-Latinx people.