Professor Tanya K. Hernández talked with Refinery29 about the colorism and racism Black Latinos contend with.
“I saw lots of ‘Brown Lives for Black Lives’ banners and people marching saying ‘We’re Brown, and marching in support of BLM,’ which is a beautiful allyship,” Hernández says. “But Latinos are not just one appearance as lumping us all together as Brown suggests. We are not just in allyship of Black Lives Matter; we are part of Black Lives Matter.”
Read “The Problem With Calling All Latines Brown” on Refinery29.