Afro-Latino

[af-roh-luh-tee-noh]

adjective

1. of or relating to Black Latinos with African ancestry: an Afro-Latino dance group.

   Afro-Latino baseball all-stars;

   an Afro-Latino dance group.

noun

plural

Afro-Latinos 

1. a Black Latino with African ancestry.

   recognizing the contributions of Afro-Latinos in the civil rights movement.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Afro-Latino¹

First recorded in 2000–05; Afro- ( def. ) + Latino ( def. )

Example Sentences

The L.A. stand-up scene is quite competitive — especially for Alexio, who is an Afro-Latino of Puerto Rican, Dominican and Ecuadorian descent.

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On May 25, 1926, the New York Public Library announced that it had acquired the celebrated Afro-Latino bibliophile Arturo Schomburg’s collection of more than 4,000 books, manuscripts and other artifacts.

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And we Latin people are finally getting to an intersection, a crossroads where we're accepting and embracing our indigenous side, our Afro-Latino side and loving it — finally.

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Urango, who was of Chumash, African American and Mexican ancestry and self identified as a Afro-Latino, was born with spina bifida, kyphosis and scoliosis, which informed his activism and outspokenness as a disabled musician playing some of the world’s most coveted stages.

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Slightly in the realms of fantasy now, but if Rustin's Colman Domingo also pulls off a big shock by winning the Oscar for best actor for playing gay Civil Rights activist Bayard Rustin, he will be the first Afro-Latino actor to win the prize.

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