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Social, Cultural and Political Aspects of the MGM African/Black Identity

After four hundred years of slave trade and kidnapping, the descendants of the enslaved Africans are no longer the same at all. Often, when speaking about the first groups brought to the Americas, modern historians refer to them as the Atlantic Creoles, hence a term which highlights the racial, social fabrication of these enslaved Africans…
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Why “Haitian Flag Day”Should Be Celebrated By The Entire African Diaspora

Today, May 18, 2023 is Haitian Flag Day, which celebrates the creation of the Haitian flag during the revolution. I aim to be clear that I am not Haitian. This date should not just be restricted to the Haitian community, but extended to the entire African diaspora; Haitian history is African history.We are talking about…
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The Importance of Kat Deluna’s Whine Up: The Last Afro-Caribbean Anthem Before The Whitewashing Of Caribbean Music

The 2000s will be remembered as a time of openness. Despite the shock endured with the horror of 9/11, the hope for a better world was still vibrant. With the emergence of technology and accessibility to the Internet for the youth (or modern-day millennials of all ages), the Latin community, thanks to music, was also…
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Why We Are Tired of The White Latin Rhetoric Regarding Their Justification In Exploiting African Music and Identity

Racism in the Latin world has displayed its worst forms since 1492. There, the colonial powers which have dominated both the Africans and the Natives, have tried to hide their racist and white supremacist agenda behind the propaganda of Mestizaje, as mentioned several times on this website. This racial hierarchy began with the racial blood…
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When Multiracial Presents as Black: Distinguishing Blackness From Afro-Latinidad and Black Mestizos

The discussion regarding the identity of Afro-Latinos and the movement of Afro-Latinidad lacks one element. Afro-Latinidad does not always mean blackness. Though some black Americans who grew up in New-York or in Miami were aware of the Latin Caribbean presence, they did not always knew about its history, past and above all, racial admixture. In…
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Rosalia, The White Colonial Agent Of Black Latin Music

Globalism has killed traditional cultures and movements, whether within the white or black European groups. The rise of technology allowed each and every one of us to evolve more rapidly, reducing the then gigantic spectrum of the world, to a small fraction of land available to any one in a simple click. Since the entry…
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Should The Concept of “Afro-Latinidad” Be Related To Ancestry or Blackness?On The “In-Between” Racial Category and Cardi B

Belcalis Almanzar, famously known as Cardi B rose to fame in the late 2010s. A social media personality and a joker, she was discovered on the show Love And Hip-Hop around 2016. The young lady born in 1992 was entertaining, funny and vulgar. There, she was trying hard to convince her peers and producers to…
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The Passport Bro Movement Is Nothing Less Than The Black Face of Sexual Colonialism

For a few years now, black American men have been attacking their fellow black women, calling them masculine, brutal, aggressive and mean to them. As the black American community is still being plagued by the issue of fatherless homes, and if black women still marry within their community despite the failure of the black American…
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THE ONGOING LATINIFICATION OF HIP-HOP

Black Americans fail to realise that their political and social condition are more than coveted. If only five per cent of enslaved Africans were sent to the United States, their treatment surpasses that of the others. No one cares for the condition of the Afro-Cubans, Afro-Boricuas or Afro-Peruvians for a specific reason. The Black Americans…
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Pourquoi la question de l’impact de la violence historique sur la psyché du tueur en série Thierry Paulin,ne fut-elle jamais explorée?

Il y a bien plus derrière le mépris des institutions médicales et judiciaires quant à leur silence envers Thierry Paulin. Près de trente-trois ans après sa mort le 16 avril 1989, Paulin, devenu le plus grand tueur en série français du XXème siècle est l’un des seuls criminels à avoir été abandonné dans les bêtises…
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