[1] Most countries in Latin America acknowledge African Latinos in their census; however they are often discriminated against and are not granted social and political equality.
The widely accepted Eurocentric national identity does not include African Latino populations because of their mixed heritage and physical traits- specifically their dark skin.
AfroLatinidad has brought together the struggles of many African Latinos that mainly focus on high levels of poverty and also a rich cultural diversity.
AfroLatinidad is essentially “a way of naming the kind of cultural fusion and hybridization typical of highly diasporic urban settings in the metropolis.
Afro Latinos have adopted hip-hop and expressed through lyrics their struggles of living in high poverty neighborhoods in Latin America.
Although impoverished, these pockets of culture contain within them a rich mixture of music, food, ideologies, practices, and values struggling against dominate social identities.