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The goal of the chapter is to highlight the experiences and struggles of Afro-Latino during the 1960’s political movements as well as their fight to assert both of their identities. The chapter also conveys the connection of Afro-Latinos with African-American community and Latino community as though setting Afro-Latinos to bridge the two. From Carlos Cooks’s Buy Black campaign to Sherezada Vicioso’s Discovering myself, chapter five chronicles the complexity of Afro-Latin@ identity and how it relates to the society during the 60s Chapter five is a collection of speeches, personal essays, memoirs, and poems written different Afro-Latin@ key figures at the time. For the most part, they were written from a first person perspective
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