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antropofagis · 2 years

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Vista Aérea Sul Americana por Carybé, 1941.

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poetalhama · 1 year

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Como se lhamam os mágicos Andes, em sua vértebra

A península central, as antilhas, a amazônia, os pampas,

O escudo do planalto brasileiro e a Patagônia?

Solidão e multiplicação

Revoluções e golpes

Fome e Modernidade

O que se cantam por essas bandas?

O Grito dos excluídos

Ou o Ipiranga do poder?

Morrem e desmorrem as velhas ideias

De símbolos vivem os já enlouquecidos a brutal realidade não faz sentido

É uma película do Cinema Novo

E a arte?

A poesia está sendo assassinada pela metralhadora visual

São ecrãs, cristais azuis mais do que os azuis

Os vales no Atlântico Norte desterritorializam nossa: física cultural; alquimia das cores; e jornada.

Triste atraso de uma América que ainda conseguiu ser Latina

#americalatina #latinidades #poesia #books #wattpad #amreading

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ladyhawke · 9 months

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– Silvio Almeida

[Text ID: “What defines Latin America is precisely the political struggle of the people who identify themselves as Latin Americans in order to resist all the historical ills to which they were subjected.”]

#*#words #writing #quotes #typography #silvio almeida #brazil #latin america #latinidad #latino #DEIXEM ESSE HOMEM SER PRESIDENTE EU IMPLORO

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aliciadreaming · 6 months

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So as a Mexican American who speaks Spanish fluently I really have to disagree with tradia. Spanish is the language of our colonizers and not knowing it because you were raised in the USA is just trading one colonizing language for another (spanish to English). Like OK latinidad is not a one for one with Arabs /Arabic and the example of Rami Malek. Like yes great for anya she can speak Spanish. But she's literally blonde and white??? Argentina is literally full of white colonizers and I highly doubt that anya has any indigenous heritage. The difference between Anya and the other two (Rachel zegler and Jenna ortega) is literally that Rachel and Jenna constantly are othered because they look mixed (mestizas with indigenous heritage). Like no one makes a fuss over atj being cast in a Jane Austen adaptation because she's blonde and fair (aka super white) meanwhile Rachel is facing intense racist backlash because she's in the live action for snow white.

Gatekeepers who want make speaking Spanish the test for latinidad have missed the entire point. We also include Haiti and Brazil in latinidad and they don't speak Spanish either. If you want to get in touch with your latinidad bypass the learning the language of our colonizers and skip ahead to learning how to be anti racist.

#latinidad #anya taylor joy #jenna ortega #Rachel zegler

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murcielagatito · 5 months

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16 years...

#yall realize how actually fucked that is?#16 years and rep hasnt changed for us in media #like we make up nearly twenty fucking percent of the population of usam (prob more) yet we r still treated like the sidepiece of hollywood #america ferrera #representation #latinidad #we are everywhere yet hollywood still just treats us like an option an afterthought an oh yeah lets toss one in there and be done #ashley from abbott elementary for example #and people dont even want her around #like yall know how that makes us feel right?#latinos in media

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fandomshatepeopleofcolor · 5 months

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hope one day the internet understands that two things can be true at the same time and that it is possible for a group to be a minority, suffer prejudice and at the same time oppress another minority group. For example, we need to talk openly about homophobia, about the discrimination that lgbt+ people faces and at same time talk openly about antiblackness that exist in lgbt+ spaces and any other minority group. how black lgbt+ are treated in the lgbt+ spaces etc

just to keep going with your example anti blackness is so baked into latin america that even brown latines are racist to afro latinos.

a really good example is lin manuel miranda a brown latino whitewashing the story of washington heights and what was supposed to be a story of the dominican americans (the majority of which are afro latines) and cast almost exclusively light skinned latines for the movie version of the musical.

(and as a reminder he turned the slave owning founding fathers into a musical and made them rap and cut out the contributions of Brown and Black Americans in the founding of the USA).

mod ali

#lin manuel miranda #colorism #white supremacy tw #latinidad #anti blackness #fhpoc asks

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dieterquintero · 10 months

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Diseños para personajes blancos en la serie "Primos" de Disney:

Diseños para personajes morenos de la serie "Primos" de Disney:

Un día de estos voy a morirme de la risa.

#disney #latinoamérica #gringos #oye primos #Shut up gringo #racismo #estereotipos #latinos #latino #latinidad #latinx #inglés #english #español #spanish course #Spanish #television

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laviejaguardia · 8 months

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Is Latino not an ethnicity????

It isn't (and it isn't a race either). Latinidad is a political identity with some sociological, cultural and historical background. What it does not have -and I cannot stress this enough- is shared genetics/common ancestry which is how I see it most referred.

Here's the definition of ethnicity from Wikipedia:

And to use roughly the same source, here's the Wikipedia disaggregation of Latin America today (which ofc I have issues with lol I'm not missing the irony of telling you "Latin America is sooo diverse" while using the "Asian" category, but I need to make do:

See what I'm getting at?

Let's continue, you can say "well I didn't mean genetics, I meant everything else"

Okay language:

Latin America includes hundreds of native languages like Quechua, Mayan, Guaraní (oficial language of Paraguay!), Aymará or Nahuatl, and always has! Without counting the beautifully mixed and improved Spanish, Portuguese (which I called Brasilero for years as a kid lol) and French, or even later additions like Welsh, Japanese, Chinese or Arabic from immigrant clusters that still speak it or are currently arriving into the continent.

So language isn't it either.

I don't even need to get into traditions c'mon look at Carnaval in Brasil, día de los muertos in Ecuador, an 9 de julio in Argentina and tell me those are all the same. Look at empanadas, tacos, humitas, pizza brasilera, tequeños, asado, sudados, etc

Religion? Argentina alone has the second biggest Islamic and Jewish populations in America after the US. Sure Christianity is paramount given the invasion and imposition by Catholic monarchies by the Spanish and Portuguese, but to say it's the only religion is to spit in the face of again, hundreds of native people's whose religions have been systematically erased since 1492. It is also quite reductive to only take institutionalised religions as valid forms of worship, or to ignore the fact that most Catholicism here would give European orthodox Catholics a stroke.

Now, history and social treatment, here's where the good stuff is.

Independencias:

These all look super different but these are processes and most of them took place in the first 3 decades of the 1800s so they're not that far off. These were carried out with an idea of hermandad. They used to be virreynatos under the same rule, we (patriotas) were all getting independence from the same monarch power (realistas). There was a lot of collaboration between administrations and armies. This was a decision from the leaders of the time, to seek strength in numbers.

The fact that we had to gain independence is a point of contact as well. At that time "patria" was understood as the desire to be independent, there were no neat lines to separate the territories. At this point in history you'll find lots of key people like San Martín, Juana Azurduy and Bolivar talking about "pueblos americanos" as a way to claim independence from imperialist/colonial European rule. (Brasil had a different history with the Portuguese court moving there)

The term Latin America or Latinoamérica came by a little later, the earliest it's been found used is 1856 by a politician from Chile, as you can see, the context it is used in is purely political.

Historically, the term when used by Americans is heavily tied to a way to gather strength in solidarity for independence and rejection of foreign imperialist aspirations, from the United States, France, Spain, etc etc.

I think latinidad is in a way a self fulfilled prophecy, we were invaded and as such "unified" where before were hundreds of different peoples. We took that very same unification and made it ours, in part because the rest of the world insists on putting us all in the same bag (included with things like the School of the Americas in the 1960s-1980s where all of Latinamerica was deemed safer for the US to be ruled by genocidal military governments than democracies that smelled just a little communist. Spoiler! it wasn't safer for us who had to actually live under them)

I reject the idea of latinidad as an ethnicity because it stems from the idea of "la raza latina" which is very very racist ("latinos" were the white Europeans from Romance language countries aka Spain, Portugal, France and Italy, there was a clear hierarchy there usual to the era that still affects our social and economic framework). It's reductive and it pretends to obscure and muddle a very clear and deliberate political choice that is to identify as latinoamerican.

This also applies to the latin people who emigrate to the US and their descendants, both the ones fixing the lawns and the ones emigrating without need of a visa to work a stable 9-5. Even if it seems only the first ones get the name.

So what's latinidad? It's whatever we say it is, hope this helps ✌️

#asks #anon #i do wonder what brought the question on lol #mmine #america latina #latam #i rewrote this a million times #and it isn't even close to comprehensive but it is what it is #you'd need ten years of study to even begin to grasp latinidad if you don't have a life of it

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hereticalflame · 1 year

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if u are a latine and upset that namor called spanish a language of hate…GO FUCK URSELF ITS THE LANGUAGE OF OUR COLONIZERS

namor isnt fucking latino, he is maya/mesoamerican!!

#black panther #black panther 2 spoilers #marvel #mcu #namor #mcu namor #latine #latinidad

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conversivelrosa · 4 days

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melissa barrera the intelligent queen that you are

#she’s still fairly new to hollywood industry and she already makes so many assertive comments #it’s so refreshing to see people who don’t use their latinidad just for marketing when it’s relevant for them #but also don’t care about good representation and harmful stereotypes #anyway I love you melissa barrera

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antropofagis · 11 months

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Fauna, flores e nativos brasileiros, por Carybé, 1953.

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gothmusiclatinamerica · 1 year

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Just learned about this book, A Kiss across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad by Richard T. Rodriguez, which talks about the fondness Latinos in the US famously have for 1980s post-punk musicians

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floral-alchemist · 1 month

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Boromir is so relatable tbh. If I played out every possible future in my head for the liberation of my people and found the only hope lay in a singular Hispanophile Brotino I would also pester him about it every chance I got

#lotr #boromir #aragorn #latinidad #my posts

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murcielagatito · 4 months

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so i watched blue beetle yesterday and i wanted to review it with the article about latino representation in media in mind but honestly i just want to talk about the background specifically the reyes family home

jaime reyes is a mexican that lives in el paso, texas. at least according to his source material. in the film however, they invented up an imaginary city for him and his family to live in and it was disappointing to see. im a texas born puerto rican whom has lived in el paso and puerto rico amongst many other places and it was kinda like….. it felt wrong the way this imaginary city was depicted. el paso is a desert and they translated that to literally them just living on a street named el paso. el paso is a beautiful city with gorgeous architecture and we were robbed of seeing that in favor of taking puerto rico and its architecture and being labeled once again a fantasy. like no! we were robbed of two different representations at once!

jaime’s home in the very real city of el paso, texas is completely ignored in favor of a tropical landscape. and while it brought pride to my heart seeing mi isla on the big screen, it made me sad as well that people would see our land (once again) yet not even realize we are not in fact a fantasy but a real actual place where people really actually live.

puerto rico’s architecture is built with very specific things in mind: one, because we live on an island, the materials we use are primarily concretes and metals to ensure longevity of our buildings in extremely moist climates. two, our homes are essentially (but not all) barricaded for extra safety (a sad but real reality) with gorgeously crafted fencing around porches. three, WE LOVE COLORS our homes are painted extremely colorfully! while in contrast, el paso’s color palate revolves favoring the earth tones seen in the city's desert landscape. it just felt like the gorgeous landscape of el paso wasnt good enough to the producers to be depicted on the big screen.

not only that we were robbed of the real issues that puerto rico is facing right now. we see a sign at the beginning of the neighborhood the reyes family lives in with several things graffitid onto it and one of the phrases is “gringos go home” this is a huge movement in puerto rico and has been for many years now as more rich white people have been gentrifying our island and kicking native puerto ricans out of their own homes. homes they have lived in their entire lives. the phrase itself can be seen as funny and im sure some people laughed about it but it felt like a slap in the face to see especially because that specific neighborhood is literally filmed in puerto rico.

the movie presents this issue of rich white people taking over this imaginary city in somewhere california when these issues are actually happening on the island as you read this. and its something they talk about in the movie but not in relation to puerto rico! like its a big issue! the reyes are literally losing their home! and theyve already lost their business because of the rising rent that they simply cannot afford. except the land the gringos are gentrifying isnt real because the city doesnt fucking exist and therefore viewers can choose to look at it as this grand fantasy issue as if the current colonization of puerto rico isnt something to be concerned about. how can yall tell us to go back to our country then take away our homes? where are we supposed to go?

#latinos in media #latinidad #movie review #puerto rico #el paso texas #long post #representation #blue beetle #blue beetle movie #jaime reyes #dcu #dc universe #pls share this if you could it means a lot to me #spoilers

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dieterquintero · 11 months

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La serie "Primos" de Disney es un friendly reminder de que los latinoamericanos nacidos y criados en Estados Unidos también son gringos.

#Disney #primos #oye primos #latinos #latinoamérica #latinidad #latino #gringos

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slutnali · 11 months

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DRAG RACE MEXICO AND BRAZIL

#this is the year for latinidad!!!!!!!!#Latino moots let me hear y’all make some noise #drag race mexico #drag race Brazil

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