[kilibry]

Would people perceive her for Black, Biracial or Latina in the USA? Please answer based on your personal experience....

[uneniaPhenits]

I see her as Hispanic, but I don't know how she identifies.

[MaickiP]

Mixed. Considering I do not view people as "Latino" or "Hispanic", I view them as mestizo, mulatto, Spanish, etc. or their ethnicity.

[PRengin]

Latino because of the Iberian features.Most African Americans don't have those kind of features.

[JesexhiSeeces]

Mixed. Considering I do not view people as "Latino" or "Hispanic", I view them as mestizo, mulatto, Spanish, etc. or their ethnicity.

That too.

[soryalomop]

She looks like a blacker Jennifer Beals.

[vigraxtru]

More pics of her

[Anamehuskeene]

On The Sopranos, she played a Latina, like she is in real life. However, when A.J. went to see his psychiatrist, the psychiatrist seemed to be aware that she was black, or at least that she was mixed with black. He makes a comment about it.

[tadacia]

Who is she?

[miel]

On The Sopranos, she played a Latina, like she is in real life. However, when A.J. went to see his psychiatrist, the psychiatrist seemed to be aware that she was black, or at least that she was mixed with black. He makes a comment about it.

Well she is of African descent, but she (by virtue of having Iberian ancestry as well and being from a Spanish speaking country) is Latina. They are not mutually exclusive.

[kanchouska]

She is more of an Afro-Latina.

[medifastwoman]

Using the layman's American term, she'd been seen as Black in most parts of the US by White and Black Americans, and by her ethnicity by Hispanics. Mostly because she looks visibly of African descent and is brown skinned.

[SNUfR8uI]

From the other thread...

In the south she would be seen as latina, because she doesn't look at all like the majority of southern black women. I agree with Jonboy in the other thread saying she would or could be black in California, where Aframs have a more mixed look in general, and where Latino = Mestizo.

Latina or bi-racial around here, not on skin color, but because her facial features aren't common among local black women.

[xresultsearch]

Using the layman's American term, she'd been seen as Black in most parts of the US by White and Black Americans, and by her ethnicity by Hispanics. Mostly because she looks visibly of African descent and is brown skinned.

This, but in the Northeast and south Florida, she'd be clearly identified as DR or PR

[Gypejeva]

She looks Black, as in Afram, to me so I chose Black.

[wsbizwsa]

In the US, the popular media usually refers to her as either specifically Dominican, or more generally Latina. First time I became aware of her was when she played Tony Soprano son's Puerto Rican girlfriend.
Among the general population here on the East Coast, as well as Miami FL, the common perception is the same as the media's.
Based on family members who live in the South, I would guess it would be the same (Latina).

[KraskiNetu]

She will be labeled as Latina as she is from an Hispanic country, despite having Afro ancestry, if she wasn't latina, she would be labeled as Black.

[Eeaquzyh]

^^ yeah even if she was mixed and raised by a white family.

[adunnyByday]

She doesn't look Afram at all and I think where I live people would see her as Caribbean and not your typical lightskinned Afram women. Her features are too off imo to fit as a "proper" Afram. People would ask where she was from or see her as mixed.

[gueremaisse]

She doesn't look Afram at all and I think where I live people would see her as Caribbean and not your typical lightskinned Afram women. Her features are too off imo to fit as a "proper" Afram. People would ask where she was from or see her as mixed.

That's pretty much what I've seen happen in real life. Cuban, PR or DR's who enlist in the military and are stationed out in the south or west coast have provided me with similar personal anecdotes.