African Descent

People of African Descent have developed different racial identities and relationships to Blackness depending in large part on the histories of the countries in which they live. Putting the documentary Black in Latin America: Mexico and Peru the Black Grandma in the Closet in conversation with the article and clip from The Guardian, You Don’t have to Look Black to be Black critically discuss the processes through which Black identities emerge and do not emerge using such processes in Nicaragua and the US as instructive examples.