Latinidad Is Canceled
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Maria and Julio are joined by Alexa Muñoz, a teacher and translator based in Washington Heights, and Dr. Jessica Marie Johnson, assistant professor in the department of history at Johns Hopkins University. They dive into a conversation about colorism and anti-Blackness in Hollywood and Latinx communities in light of the controversy sparked around the film release of “In The Heights.” They also unpack the notion of Latinidad and what it means to push back against internalized white supremacy. ITT Staff Picks: - In this 2019 piece for The Nation, Miguel Salazar interviews a group of journalists, organizers, and thinkers about pushback against the concept of Latinidad. - Nili Blanck writes about the immigrant and Dominican history of Washington Heights, the neighborhood behind “In The Heights,” for Smithsonian Magazine. - “The truth is there can be no Latino representation without Afro-Latinos. There is no story of Washington Heights without Black people and Afro-Dominicans of all shades,” writes Natasha S. Alford in this piece for CNN. Photo credit: Warner Bros. via AP
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| 0:24.5 | You can't miss that if you are attending to the black experiences, but in missing it, you |
| 0:41.1 | actually tell a worse story. |
| 0:45.4 | Hey what's up family, welcome to In The Thick. |
| 0:48.2 | This is a podcast on politics, race and culture from a POC perspective. |
| 0:52.0 | I'm Mariano Posa and I'm Julio Ricardo Varela. |
| 0:55.4 | Joining us from the most fabulous neighborhood, okay, next to Harlem from Washington Heights |
| 1:01.4 | is Alexa Munoz, she's a teacher and a translator, hey Alexa, welcome. |
| 1:06.1 | Hey, what's up, how are you doing? |
| 1:08.3 | When I start this. |
| 1:09.5 | When I start this, oh my goodness, very nice, okay and joining us from Baltimore, Maryland |
| 1:15.2 | is Dr. Jessica Marie Johnson, she's assistant professor at the Department of History at |
| 1:21.6 | M, Johns Hopkins University. |
| 1:24.2 | Well, welcome, Jessica. |
| 1:25.9 | Hello, hi everybody. |
| 1:27.9 | All right, fam, so today we're going to talk about colorism in Latino and Latina communities. |
| 1:33.1 | And yes, it's a conversation that was brought to the forefront last week after the release |
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