This webinar was very interesting. It talked about what it is to be Latina or Latino or as mentioned by the webinar Latinx: it refers to both male or female. The main take away I got from this webinar is that even though Black History is celebrated in February and Hispanic Heritage month is in September "Latinx history IS Black History.
The webinar talked about when transporting African slaves to North America more than half of them ended up in Latin America, thus making Latin America Black. Latinos have a lot of layers so much so that they cannot be simply White or Black that is where the term Afro-Latinx came from because as the webinar mentions Latinos are indeed Black, but they are way more than just Black they are Caribbean and South American making them Afro-Latino. This compound word is a way to pay tribute to both.
Th webinar shared a poem written by Elizabeth Acevedo called "Afro-Latina". I loved this poem it talks about all the struggles of being an Afro-Latina girl living in the United States. I would love to someday teach this poem to my future students. This poems would be perfect for discusses identity and social justice issues. The link to the poem is here https://www.learningforjustice.org/classroom-resources/texts/afrolatina. I highly recommend checking it out.
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