I've always loved The B-52's, great punk rock band from Washington, but this was my first time watching "Rock Lobster" the official video. AMAZING CINEMATOGRAPHY TRULY A WORK OF ART. HERE YOU ALL ARE STAY BLESSED
While American media might make it seem like the Afro-Latinx identity has only existed since debates over Cardi B's race, we've always been here, we've always been speaking about our blackness, we've always been the ones forced to defend our latinidad at the hands of white and mestizo latinx. While American and Latino media will homogenize the "latin" ethnicity with light-skin white and mestizo latinx, we've been the ones on the ground underrepresented and erased. Here are Afro-Latinx who have led movements and combated injustices that you already know about. Susana Baca - Beyond being one of the most prominent Afro-Peruvian figures and a two time Latin Grammy Award winner, Susana Baca uses her platform to advocate for the justice of the 2.5 million Afro-Peruanx in Peru. Baca had served as Peru’s Minister of Culture and Arts. Her album Afrodiaspora is a poetic composition of the struggles of afro latinidad. source: ANDINA (2012). Cantante ...
The B 52s were indeed great, but they were from Athens, GA, not Washington, D.C. :) Regardless, the revolution will be danced to!
ReplyDeleteNo way I SWORE they were from Washington the state LOL welp better for the east coast rep
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