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@afrodominicans

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Decolonization. Destroying internalized anti-blackness. Analyzing Afro-Dominican history on the island and in the United States. Follow for interesting threads!

NYC ๐Ÿ—ฝ๐ŸŽ
Joined September 2020
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Afro-Dominicans ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด
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@Beats_by_Blue There was a lice outbreak when I was in 2nd grade, I was scared, the paraprofessional in my class an older black woman told me โ€œhoney black people canโ€™t get liceโ€ with a straight face. Iโ€™ve never forgotten this. ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
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Afro-Dominicans ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด
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@JDBoost @JUARANTINE U can like his music and acknowledge that heโ€™s very much a โ€œgentrificationโ€ of Puerto Rican urban music historically and is tone deaf when it comes to cultural appropriation and not even acknowledging BLM.
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Afro-Dominicans ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด
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@ROUSEYSHIRAl Yes, it will be a generic white-mestizo Latin-American family will all the tropes and stereotypes and typical immigrant struggles. They will probably have abuela from Mexico and the highly Americanized grandchildren. Episode about the Quinciaรฑera no doubt.
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Afro-Dominicans ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด
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Dominican Spanish cuts out plurals, uses double negatives, strong contractions and contains several European influences, African words, Taino words, Spanish archaisms, Anglicisms, and urban slangs. Itโ€™s a Spanish creole.
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Afro-Dominicans ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด
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Why are you bootlicking and bigging up this very small migration? There are many, many, many more Dominicans of Lebanese, Palestinian, and Syrian descent than Dominicans of Jewish descent.
@HispanistaRD
Hispanista ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด
11 months
Sosua, Dominican Republic 1940 #Israel
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Afro-Dominicans ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด
10 months
You idiots need to stop pulling out that dumb ass joke this man was brutalized. Black Dominicans experience racism and are marginalized too. In real life millions of Dominicans identify as black and there are dozens of social justice organizations and academics trying to fight.
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Afro-Dominicans ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด
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@EdsonDamianJ The majority of Latin-Americans are mestizos of European and Native American ancestry and lean more European phenotypically. A lot of you should be checking white I know it hurts but itโ€™s true. For many people this is tricky but for others itโ€™s clear cut with them in denial.
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Afro-Dominicans ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด
3 years
Just watched some of โ€œIn The Heightsโ€. Itโ€™s a pretty inauthentic film beyond color just everything is off and clichedโ€”from the dialogue to the wardrobe. This is for white folks basically.
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Afro-Dominicans ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด
10 months
Dominican and Haitian plates be looking identical ๐Ÿคค
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๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡นC'est-mon-fils
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Leftover appetizer
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Afro-Dominicans ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด
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@tamu02_ I fail to see the correlation. Kendrick Lamar as a descendant of the African slave trade felt an ancestral connection to this place and went to discover his roots. Burna Boy has no connection or history tied to American ghettos.
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Afro-Dominicans ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด
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@Variety The neighborhood it is set in is Dominican. Go find me a Peruvian in the Heights. ๐Ÿ˜‚ This is an idealization not the reality of Washington Heights. Itโ€™s okay all Latinos arenโ€™t united in real life. In some cases thereโ€™s even ethnic strife between us. Letโ€™s stop the fantasy.
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Afro-Dominicans ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด
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@danielaciarpag People need to understand Latinos are not a monolith. Itโ€™s a highly diverse group a third gen mestizo Mexican-American in Arizona isnโ€™t going to vote like a first gen black Dominican-American in NYC who isnโ€™t going to vote like a second gen white Cuban-American in Miami.
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Afro-Dominicans ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด
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Precisely why the bullshit needs to stop we share too much culture! ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿฝโ€โ™‚๏ธ
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Haytien
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Ce nโ€™est pas du Bachata, ni du Konpa, ni du Meringue : Cโ€™est le Carabinier, la plus ancienne danse crรฉole dโ€™Haรฏti qui a donnรฉ naissance aux Meringue(s)๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด. Il vit encore mais pour combien de temps encore ?
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Afro-Dominicans ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด
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@ChezCharde You believe ALL Africans believed in religion? I donโ€™t like this stance at all. All peoples have religion to instill values, moral codes, and justify/explain existence but there have always been non-believers in all cultures.
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Afro-Dominicans ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด
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Lambon
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Santiago Matias
10 months
Gracias al presidente @realDonaldTrump por la invitacion. Seguimos uniendo lazos para fortalecer nuestra plataforma @alofokefm ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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Afro-Dominicans ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด
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This is one of the black practices indigenous to ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด. Only in Bani can you find this religious festivity, dance and, musical expression.
@dominicocolo
volviรณ el negrolo cocolo con coco loso y rolo
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@PapitoLoquitoo Itโ€™s looking real โ€œAfroโ€ back there too. Macho need to take his 40 year old police looking ass in the house nobody wants those Gildan tees.
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Afro-Dominicans ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด
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To all my black Dominicans this is how a lot of white and heavily European-dominant mulattoes feel about us deep down and some are as brazen as this guy. Balaguer vibes. A lot of them just tolerate us under the guise of nationalism on some โ€œtheyโ€™re our blacksโ€ type shit.
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Elchivo7777
11 months
I would trade millions of black Dominicans (dark Dominicans, Dominicans with visibly high afro dna) for 5 Ricans so long as those black Dominicans go to Africa and not PR. I will die on this hill
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Afro-Dominicans ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด
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@humanerror35 @JDBoost @JUARANTINE Yeah, this is after he had been called out repeatedly as it says in the article he stays away from โ€œpoliticsโ€.
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Afro-Dominicans ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด
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@GIRBAUDJEANZ Ehhhh, not all people part of the ADOS movement are xenophobic in their rhetoric and black immigrants need to be mindful of their claims and understand our positioning in the American system. Itโ€™s really a complex discussion that requires understanding from both sides.
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Afro-Dominicans ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด
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She grew up in a context where Dominican was synonymous with โ€œSpanishโ€ or โ€œLatinoโ€ and therefore not black itโ€™s a two way street. Most people do not know this stuff we can talk about it all day from a technical standpoint but colloquially thatโ€™s just the thinking unfortunately.
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Nani โœจ๐Ÿนโœจ FernandaMeier.com
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Ice Spice not knowing that Black and Dominican are not mutually exclusive terms while Black Americans weaponize the word "Mexican" when referring to Cardi B just confirmed everything I already knew. We are (culturally) cooked. Internalized white supremacy is a helluva drug.
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Afro-Dominicans ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด
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In the 1970โ€™s Dominican Republic ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด Haitian ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡น songs could be heard on the radio, there were black fests with leading black Dominican musicians and entertainers, the Senegalese ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ณ ballet performed in Santiago. All things that would be met with intense xenophobia today.
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Roberto R.
1 year
En la dรฉcada de los 70โ€™s se celebrรณ en el Estadio Olimpico la fiesta negra, que fue un concierto en honor a la raza negra en el que casi todos los artistas eran negros. Para esa misma รฉpoca vino al paรญs el ballet de danzas tribales de Senegal. Imaginen si eso ocurre ahora.
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Afro-Dominicans ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด
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The thought that Dominicans deserve to be brutalized by police or to die from natural disasters because of โ€œme no blackโ€ or actions of the state that the typical black marginalized Dominican has no control over and/or may not even support is sickening. Shame on yโ€™all.
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Afro-Dominicans ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด
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Dominicans in Santiago argue and attempt to stop migratory agents from detaining a Haitian worker much to the annoyance of the nazionalistas who argue they too should be arrested. Down with antihaitianism and police brutalityโ€ฆ
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Rafael Gil
10 months
Circunvalaciรณn oeste Santiago . Migraciรณn recogiendo los haitianos y Dominicanos trataron de impedir que los agentes migratorios se lo lleven esto tiene que parar tienen que llevรกrselos dominicanos preso lo que interrumpen las labores de los agentes migratorios
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Afro-Dominicans ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด
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@ginatorres There are no piragua vendors from Puerto Rico in modern day Washington Heights, Ms. Torres. Yun-yun vendors from DR, yes. Todayโ€™s Washington Heights and the one you grew up in decades ago are different. These nuances matter. Dominicans do not feel represented by this movie.
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Afro-Dominicans ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด
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@HispanistaRD Y esto ahora dique que el dominicano nunca a tenido Afro y todos esos merenguero y sus bandas en los 80โ€™s. ๐Ÿ˜‚ El joven dominicano hoy en dia anda con su Afro blow out, trenzas de todas variedades, Rastas, twisties.
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Afro-Dominicans ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด
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The anti-blackness of many today is disappointing but this isnโ€™t true. Dominican slaves were highly rebellious. From the very first slave revolt of the Americas in 1521 to Santiago Basoraโ€™s uprising to ensure the end of slavery after Dominican Independence in 1844.
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Cameron Jacob
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Every time Dominicans talk they prove they were indeed the most low maintenance easily brainwashed slaves ever. And to his day... The cheapest. Absolutely embarrassing.
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Afro-Dominicans ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด
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@shesfiery Is that a fall leaf soaked in egg batter and fried with bacon bits on it ๐Ÿ˜‚
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Afro-Dominicans ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด
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You arenโ€™t a Conquistador. If youโ€™re white like that I assure your ancestors were Canarian country bumpkins shut the fuck up. ๐Ÿคฃ You are not them, you are not the aristocracy, if you were you wouldnโ€™t have had to flea to Washington Heights.
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Afro-Dominicans ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด
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@Hereandthere190 Corny ass Hispanic nationalist. Only one of those countries is fully Caribbean the rest only have coasts.
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Afro-Dominicans ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด
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Jairo Asencio, a pitcher in Lidom for the Tigres de Licey calls out racist fans of the rival Aguilas Cibaeรฑas. Afro-Dominicans are fed up.
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remolacha.net
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Jairo Asencio: โ€œLos aguiluchos hablan mucho y son racistasโ€ #remolachanet
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Afro-Dominicans ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด
6 months
What a shame
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Santiago Matias
6 months
PONGAN FECHA Y HORA ๐Ÿฟ EL MEJOR DE TODOS LOS TIEMPO x ALOFOKE ๐Ÿ“บ
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Afro-Dominicans ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด
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@DailyLoud โ€œLil Babyโ€™sโ€ sounds like the most fire soul food spot lol.
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Afro-Dominicans ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด
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Godfreyโ€™s first time speaking on his infamous โ€œme no blackโ€ videoโ€ฆ
@DetroitBabalawo
๐ŸŸฅSANGO'SโœŠ๐ŸฟWRATH๐ŸŸฉ
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Colorism (racism) against Afro-Dominicans ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด
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Afro-Dominicans ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด
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When you win the info war, when you dictate a personโ€™s self-image, and perception you control them. The same nazionalistas have edited the โ€œPeople of Dominican Republicโ€ Wikipedia page hell bent on not showing black people. Letโ€™s take a dive in this threadโ€ฆ ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿฝ
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Afro-Dominicans ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด
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@got_cake Anti-blackness is widespread in Latin America the notion that Dominicans are exceptional racists doesnโ€™t hold up and is disingenous especially when the comparison is Puerto Rico and Cuba where the cultures are extremely similar down to the caste colorist skin color descriptors.
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Afro-Dominicans ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด
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@TheeEmpiire U donโ€™t speak for all Dominicans. Dominicans and Haitians are both West Indian and Latino countries. Dominicans and Haitians due to proximity and shared history have more connection on the island than with other Latinos and Caribbean peoples.
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Afro-Dominicans ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด
2 years
Just saw Univision in NYC is doing specials for BHM and they highlighted the Garifuna ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ณ community here. Just the word afrodescendia being used on air is showing significant progress.
@Latinegra
LATINEGRAS
2 years
Paโ€™ Black History month #Latinegras sat with @lourdeshuep to talk abt AfroLatinos & the challenges of visibility. This was one of my favorite interviews, I felt like it went beyond the surface & was a fuller story. This aired in @Telemundo Feliz #BlackHistoryMonth a todos
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Afro-Dominicans ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด
1 year
Racist white Dominicans yโ€™all ๐Ÿ˜‚
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Simo Hรคyhรค
1 year
Asรญ andas nuestra mujeres, blancas, pelo bueno y educadas en nuestro querido pueblo.
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Afro-Dominicans ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด
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@maracharese @angelicabastien Itโ€™s a film about a neighborhood named Washington Heights in NYC. It is predominantly Dominican and many Dominicans there are Afro-Latinos. This film casted mostly lighter Puerto Ricans , Cubans, Mexicans and did not capture the culture of the neighborhood well at all.
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Afro-Dominicans ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด
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@LavishLife243 @Space_fairy_ A lot of Latinos are, the Lebanese were some of the biggest immigrants to Latin America.
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