How does Elizabeth Acevedo represent “triple consciousness” in this poem?
What statements stood out to you? Are there arguments that resonated with you or that you don’t agree on? Do you understand las Afro-Latinidades through a different perspective that we have not covered yet?
Presentation(s)
General Questions: What are Miriam Jiménez Román’s and Juan Flores’s central arguments in this section? What debates are they presenting and what perspectives are they putting forth?
GROUP ONE and Two: Afro-Latin@? What’s an Afro-Latin@? Who is an Afro-Latin@?
Examine and expand on the following quote:
“Broadly speaking, the word “Afro-Latin@” can be viewed as an expression of long-term transnational relations and of the world events that generated and were in turn affected by particular global social movements.” (Pages 1-3)
GROUP THREE and FOUR: Group History (the 1960s onward)
Examine and expand on the following quote:
“The inadequacy of the Latin@ concept along with the need to broaden and complicate the notion of Blackness in the United States has given rise to the understanding that Latinidad and Blackness are not mutually exclusive and to a recognition of their interface in the Afro-Latin@ presence.” (9-11)
GROUP FIVE and SIX: Transnational Discourse, Cross-Cultural Relations
Examine and expand on the following quote:
“In addition to its deep historical foundations, an understanding of the Afro-Latin@ experience must be guided by a clear appreciation of the transnational discourse or identity field linking Black Latin Americans and Latin@s across national and regional lines… [also] with all due caution, the relative unity and solidarity between the Latin@ and African American communities is no doubt the principal field of action and interaction for the Afro-Latin@ in the United States.” (Pages 11-14)
GROUP SEVEN and EIGHT: The Fact of Afro-Latinidad
Examine and expand on the following quote:
“The “fact of Afro-Latinidad” makes that experience distinct in basic ways from that of either non-Black Latin@s or non-Latin@ Blacks… In their quest for a full and appropriate sense of social identity, Afro-Latin@s are thus typically pulled in three directions at once and share a complex, multidimensional optic on contemporary society.” (Pages 14-15)