Family Chat: Being An Afro-Latina With My Cousin, Shailyn Tirado

In this episode, I talk to my cousin, Shailyn Tirado, about Blackness as an Afro-Latina, and more specifically, in our Dominican culture.

We Talk About…

• Being Afro-Latina
• Colorism
• Being Dominican
• Distinctions between race and ethnicity
• The role of platforms in anti-racism education
• The influence of colonialism, and African ancestry on self-identification

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