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Heritage Archive: Afro-Latino Family Stories Pack
Culturally Specific Printable Insert Pages
Your family is Black and Latino. Document both truths—and the history they came from.
Afro-Latino families navigating the intersection of African heritage and Latin identity — including families of African descent from Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Panama, and across the Caribbean and Latin America — whose Blackness and Latinidad have often been treated as contradictions rather than what they are: the same history, told whole
The Name It First Experience
Afro-Latino families carry histories rooted in the transatlantic slave trade, the specific plantation economies of the Spanish and Portuguese Caribbean and South America, syncretic religions born from the collision of African and Catholic traditions, and the particular experience of navigating American racial categories that have never had a box for them. Yoruba became Lucumí became Santería in Cuba. Bantu became Candomblé in Brazil. The bomba, the cumbia, the samba — all of it is African history wearing a Latin name. This pack gives families structured prompts to document what the elders carry: the specific African ethnic roots where they are known, the syncretic faith traditions, the cultural practices that survived slavery, and the immigration or migration journey. The output is a documented family archive that holds both identities at once.
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Sample questions
- Before we begin, I want to ask about the African heritage in your family — the things you know came from Africa, even if the chain of memory was broken. What do you hold, or wish you held?
- Tell me about the person in your family whose story holds the fullest sense of what it means to be Afro-Latino. What do you want preserved?
- What does Afro-Latino identity mean in your family — the African heritage and the Latin American identity together?
- What do you most want the next generation to know about your family's full heritage — both what came from Africa and what was built in Latin America?
Research basis
Grounded in Crenshaw (1991) intersectionality / Afro-Latino identity scholarship (Vidal-Ortiz, 2004) / oral history methodology / documentation of African-descent identity within Latin American and Caribbean contexts.
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