{"id":29681,"date":"2018-10-29T10:58:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T17:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=29681"},"modified":"2018-10-29T11:05:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T18:05:29","slug":"black-latina-in-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/black-latina-in-higher-education\/","title":{"rendered":"What It Means To Be a Black Latina in Higher Education"},"content":{"rendered":"

What It Means To Be a Black Latina in Higher Education<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Ala\u00ed Reyes-Santos, Associate Professor, UO Department of Ethnic Studies
\nposted in Hip Latina, October 20, 2018<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI have been asserting my blackness since I can remember.<\/p>\n

\u201cGrowing up in the mountains of Puerto Rico, my curls \u2014\u2018pelo malo,\u2019as friends called it\u2014betrayed my family\u2019s attempts to claim whiteness by invoking our Spanish great grandfather. Why would my grandmother, who loved me deeply, say that my hair \u2018does not come from our side of the family\u2019?<\/p>\n

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Ala\u00ed Reyes-Santos<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cAs we experience university responses to the Black Lives Matter Movement, Black Latinxs relive the everyday violence I faced during my childhood. Black Latinas are made invisible by intellectual and pedagogical initiatives. Data rarely documents Afro-Latino experiences in education, housing and employment, though they are similar to African American ones; AfroLatinx activists<\/a> and Afro-Latinx Studies scholars<\/a> seek that recognition.\u201d<\/p>\n

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What It Means To Be a Black Latina in Higher Education by Ala\u00ed Reyes-Santos, Associate Professor, UO Department of Ethnic Studies posted in Hip Latina, October 20, 2018 \u201cI have been asserting my blackness since I can remember. \u201cGrowing up…<\/p>\n

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