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Afrolatina

Afrolatina is the alternative form of Afro-Latina.

Meaning of Afro-Latina

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...

See all 2 meanings of Afro-Latina

Noun capitalized: AfroLatina

AfroLatina (plural AfroLatinas)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Afro-Latina.
    • Through interviewing AfroLatinas like Danyeli, Zuri and Vero are there any conflicts and identity issues that this particular part of the Latinx community faces?2021 September 16, For(bes) The Culture, “Paola Ramos On Finding And Defining Latinx In America”, in Forbes, archived from the original on 16 Sep 2021
    • The consistent attention to AfroLatinas’ agency across all the chapters is not superficially empowering; it is attentive to the difficult circumstances in which that agency is asserted, and the tremendous breadth of what agency can look like, from a silent look to coded language and practices to...2022, Rosita Scerbo, Concetta Bondi, “Introduction: Centering Black Women/Challenging Latinidad and Hegemonic Discourses”, in AfroLatinas and LatiNegras: Culture, Identity, and Struggle from an...

Forms of Afrolatina

Adjective
comparativemore Afrolatina
superlativemost Afrolatina
Noun
pluralAfrolatinas
pluralAfroLatinas

Questions about Afrolatina

What is Afrolatina the alternative form of?
Afrolatina is the alternative form of Afro-Latina.
What part of speech is Afrolatina?
Afrolatina is a noun.
What is the plural of Afrolatina?
The plural of Afrolatina is Afrolatinas.

Words near Afrolatina in the dictionary

  1. afrofuturists
  2. afroinsectiphilian
  3. afroinsectiphilians
  4. afroinsectivoran
  5. afroinsectivorans
  6. Afrolatina
  7. AfroLatinas
  8. afrolatino
  9. Afrolatinos
  10. afrolike
  11. Afromerican

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Afrolatina (page history and authors); AfroLatina (page history and authors); Afro-Latina (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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