What is Castas

For many Afro-Latinos, their journey began in the southeast then moved up to the East Coast and to the rest of the country. Recounting their forced settlement in the Caribbean and the United States may take many years of research, especially when it came to writing every single aspect of their history, ethnic backgrounds, and their locations which have been placed in a hyphenated “box.” Historically, Africans in the United States have struggled with the binary mentality. Now Brown Latinos have joined the group, thus creating a dynamic combination even while voices rise. Food, music, holidays, customs, and spirituality have been carried through the centuries. The influence of Afro-Latinos on gender roles and expectations during the diaspora and an overview of the chronology of Afro-Latinas are divided in this chapter into two sections starting from where their settlement is recorded in the Southeast and following their movement to the Northeast of the United States.