Conversations on Race and LatinX with Bernardo Ferdman and Placida Gallegos
What is LatinX? Bernardo Ferdman, a Jewish Latino, born in Argentina and raised in Puerto Rico, and Placida Gallegos, a Chicana woman define LatinX, and talk about issues of race, skin color, and ethnicity in the Latin culture.
They share issues of skin color, ethnicity and race in the Latino culture. Placida talks about her family and how being light skinned was valued more than her siblings who were darker, as well as how men had more power and value than women.
Bernardo talk about his experiences as a white Latino who is also Jewish, and what binds LatinX people together.
The Spanish language is gender based, and there are different endings of words based on gender. LatinX includes all genders, ethnicities and skin colors.
Topics of interest:
- LatinX- why, how and impact of the term
- Questions about the term and pushback
- Origin and meaning of the term Chicano
- Colorism in the overall LatinX culture
- Terms that used to be acceptable and is no longer
- Conversations on race within the LatinX community and outside the LatinX community
- Generation differences in the Latino community
- History of Salsa and Caribbean music and new music blends
- Intersections and complexities of Latin culture
- Bad Bunny, Cardi B, and the popularity or Latino reggaeton, and trap music
- Objectification of Latina women
- The racial aspect of immigration issues today in the US
- Patterns of racism in the immigration discussion
- Impact of the media, dehumanization and villification of people from Mexico and countries who are fleeing violence and oppression
