How Colorism Impacts Latin Communities On And Off The Screen

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So many were so excited for the Broadway hit In The Heights was finally coming out after almost a year.

However, it was met with a backlash that has sparked a national conversation about colorism, citing concerns that Afro-Latinos and dark-skinned performers were pushed to the background in the production.

How does one's skin tone change their representation of their own race? And how are those who are "different" are treated even in their own community?

Guests

Tulia Falleti 

Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor of Political Science
Director of the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies at the University of Pennsylvania

Jasminne Mendez

Dominican-American poet, playwright, and author based in Houston
Co-founder of Tintero Projects

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