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Tuesday, December 2, 2008

BLACK THOUGHTS: A Political Ideological Perspective for Afro Latinos
Part IV: Voice of the Voiceless

By Kevin Alberto Sabio

I had recently gone out to a Latino heritage festival out here in my new home state of Virginia.  Being that this is Latino/Hispanic Heritage Month, I had decided to come out and represent my Honduran heritage at this festival; one of the few opportunities that I have to not be the quintessential ‘angry black male’, and get to relax and let my hair down, so to speak.  I wore my paraphernalia (hat and wristbands) promoting my Honduran heritage, even buying a jersey with the Honduran flag on it at the festival when I finally arrived.  The festival itself was quite nice; not really being on the scale that I’m used to being from New York, but it was still entertaining and enjoyable.  The only downer was getting asked the same stupid question from those who dared to ask…

Are you really from Honduras?

No…I’m wearing all of this blue-and-white because it brings out the color of my eyes…

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The View from Chocó: The Afro-Colombian past, their lives in the present, and their hopes for the future 
by Karen Juanita Carrillo
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The View from Chocó: The Afro-Colombian past, their lives in the present, and their hopes for the future is an introduction to the lives of Blacks in Colombia. Afro-Colombians live in a resource-rich yet remote region of Colombia. They only recently won recognition as one of that nation's distinct ethnic groups. But Colombia's on-going civil war has led many Afro-Colombians to reach even farther than their nation's borders for recognition: many have made their way to the United States as refugees and as political activists working for peace in their homeland. The View from Chocó introduces the lives and struggles of a too-long neglected community of Colombian Blacks. 
 
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 Raise Your Brown Black Fist is a collection of essays written by Kevin Alberto Sabio during his time as a Contributing Writer RaiseYourBrownBlackFist.jpgfor an online magazine. 
 
 
The book combines his two article series, "Black vs Brown" and "Black Thoughts: A Political Ideological Perspective for Afrolatinos" into one volume, plus three other miscellaneous entries.  The book  is currently available through his publisher, AuthorHouse. 
 
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