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Racial-Ethnic Identity Among Afro-Latinos Summary
In “Racial-Ethnic Identity among Afro-Latinos on the Los Angeles Region”, Anulkah Thomas talks about afro-Latinos who struggle with their identity. They struggle with their identity because they have two or more different ethnicity. There is this study which involves college and graduate students in Los Angeles area. When the authors talks about afro Latino, she mentions that their community is the most affected by it. Their community is affected by it because Americans don’t know about this community. If we know more about this community, then we could possibly fix this issue. When she interviews the students, one of them didn’t consider being Latino. This guy did not consider himself Latino because his father told him to identify as African
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