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Afro-Latina

Syllables: A·fro·la·ti·na[ˌa̠fɹo̞la̠ˈt̪ina̠]/ˌæfɹoʊləˈtinə/

Afro-Latina adjective: of mixed African and Latina descent.

Adjective

Afro-Latina (not comparable)

  1. Of mixed African and Latina descent.
    • In this respect, [Maymie] De Mena continually negotiates the complex intersections of Eurocentric constructions of “respectable” women’s behavior and roles, in the context of expectations about black women’s uncontrolled sexuality, and “redemptive” discourses about people in the not-yet...2016, Petra R. Rivera-Rideau, Jennifer A. Jones, Tianna S. Paschel, editors, Afro-Latin@s in Movement: Critical Approaches to Blackness and Transnationalism in the Americas, Palgrave Macmillan...
    • “Your guard, she is Afro-Latina. I can see it in her,” my client said, then glanced my way. “Is everything good, young man?” Oya was Brazilian, black, and Portuguese, so he wasn’t wrong.2018, Brick & Storm, Eraserheads: A Hood Misfits Novel, Urban Books, →ISBN

Noun

Afro-Latina (plural Afro-Latinas)

  1. A woman of mixed African and Latina descent.
    • Claiming blackness allows her to connect her experience to other Afro-Latinas and have experiences of difference acknowledged.2015, Rachel Afi Quinn, “This Bridge Called the Internet: Black Lesbian Feminist Activism in Santo Domingo”, in Cheryl R. Rodriguez, Dzodzi Tsikata, Akosua Adomako Ampofo, editors, Transatlantic...
    • Some of the distributional similarities between Afro-Latinas and other female demographic groups, including white and African American women, include “pink-collar job” crowding: […]2021, Michelle Holder, Alan A. Aja, Afro-Latinos in the U.S. Economy, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 90

Examples of Afro-Latina in a sentence

  • Yet she does so from a unique Afro-Latina and moreover Central American perspective.2016, Petra R. Rivera-Rideau, Jennifer A. Jones, Tianna S. Paschel, editors, Afro-Latin@s in Movement: Critical Approaches to Blackness and...
  • But, unlike Esperanza and Julia, Xiomara is not Chicana; she is Afro-Latina and a poet, a young girl we seldom see represented in popular culture […]2022, Trevor Boffone, Cristina Herrera, Latinx Teens: U.S. Popular Culture on the Page, Stage, and Screen, The University of Arizona Press...

Forms of Afro-Latina

Adjective
alternative formAfroLatina
alternative formAfrolatina
Noun
pluralAfro-Latinas

Origin of Afro-Latina

From Afro- + Latina.

Words that rhyme with Afro-Latina

37 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about Afro-Latina

What does Afro-Latina mean?
Afro-Latina means of mixed African and Latina descent.
How do you use Afro-Latina in a sentence?
Yet she does so from a unique Afro-Latina and moreover Central American perspective.
What part of speech is Afro-Latina?
Afro-Latina can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce Afro-Latina?
Afro-Latina is pronounced /ˌæfɹoʊləˈtinə/ (US).

Words near Afro-Latina in the dictionary

  1. Afro-Germans
  2. Afro-Guyanese
  3. Afro-Indian
  4. Afro-Indians
  5. Afro-Latin
  6. Afro-Latina
  7. Afro-Latinas
  8. Afro-Latino
  9. Afro-Latinos
  10. Afro-Latins
  11. Afro-Latinx

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