the black latino experience

The Black Latino Experience by Grisel Y. Acosta is an article from Para Mi magazine which touches on some of the common experiences of Afrolatinos growing up in the US.

Growing up in the 1970s and ‘80s as a mixed Cuban/Colombian in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood, with its large Puerto Rican and Polish populations, was confusing. Everyone thought I was Puerto Rican, and when I explained where my parents were from, they looked at me funny, as if I had said, “I am from the galaxy of Cuba, located in the region of Colombia, far, far, away.”