No need to apologize for 'belaboring the point.' And the translations were appreciated but not necessary as I'm Puerto Rican myself (Nuyorican actually) and speak Spanish fluently. I don't think she answered the question, but I must say that her attitude/outlook is unusual in my experience, as most of the dark-skinned Puerto Ricans (especially) and Dominicans I've met in New York and Puerto Rico take great pains to refute that they are black. To many black is synonymous with African American. So yeah, the tendency is to say dark-skinned Latina (Dominican/Puerto Rican/etc.). But if she wants to call herself black, more power to her. I think, however, that my black classmates from high school in West Harlem might laugh.
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Date: 2009-05-19 02:37 am (UTC)Lisel