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Hispanics are celebrating Black History Month. Here's why


Hispanics are celebrating Black History Month. Here’s why
Orlando Sentinel
3/1/2021
Ingrid Cotto, Orlando Sentinel
By the time she was five, Barbara Idalissee Abadía-Rexach felt she carried a great responsibility on her shoulders: her black skin.
“[I decided] to get good grades and be the most well-behaved girl in the classroom because you can’t be Black, have bad hair, have bad grades and behave badly. That’s the stereotype [about Black people],“ said Abadía-Rexach, professor of Afro-Latin studies at San Francisco State University.
Fighting against “structural and systemic racism” became a mission for the Puerto Rican anthropologist. ....

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