Talk:List of Afro–Puerto Ricans

2007

this list excluded Rosie Perez (actress) film credits include "Do The Right Thing", White Men Can't Jump", "Yo Soy Boricua, Pa Que Tu Lo Sepas!" (I Am a Boricua, Just So You Know It.), "Fearless", and "Lackawanna Blues", just to name a few.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.120.217.42 (talk • contribs) 4 July 2007‎

Requested move

List Of Notable Afro Puerto Ricans Of African Descent → List of Puerto Ricans of African descent — First, "Notable" shouldn't be in the title. Second, the title doesn't make sense, all "Afro Puerto Ricans" are of African descent, if they weren't then they wouldn't be "Afro Puerto Ricans". If anyone objects to List of Puerto Ricans of African descent then suggest another title, but the current one must be changed —Saikokira 01:45, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

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• Support, and suggest that this is uncontroversial. I think you might be fine making this move yourself. Dekimasuよ! 02:43, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Uncontroversial, especially given move history. This article has been renamed from List Of Notable Afro Puerto Ricans Of African Descent to List of Puerto Ricans of African descent as the result of a move request. --Stemonitis 10:23, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

This should be joined with the Afro-Puerto Rican category. Of course, some changes should be made to exclude persons who are not Puerto Rican blacks (afroboricuas). Saludos.--Noopinonada (talk) 01:50, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Apparently the trend of including people whose black ancestry comes not from Puerto Rico but other nations has continued. Afro-Puerto Ricans are black people from Puerto Rico, i.e. whose African ancestry in the African diaspora is from Puerto Rico, not the USA, not Cuba, not the Dominican Republic, and not any other country. Also, the inclusion of the psuedohistorian African-American "Dr." Yosef Ben-Jochannan, with his dubious and totally unverifiable claims of Puerto Rican ancestry, is laughable. Furthermore, a user's inclusion of Victor Santos, a Dominican, is incorrect, as was his/her chiming in with opinions on the racial nature Santos' beauty context. This is an encyclopedia, which is an inappropriate forum to share personal opinions. I have edited the list.--Noopinonada (talk) 23:39, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Merged

Note, I merged from the Afro-Puerto Rican article a number of names, which are now all centralized here. I tried to avoid duplicates and not lose any, but please take a look and check the work. We should also standardize the list to be FIRSTNAME LASTNAME, as seems to be the standard for most other lists.--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 22:05, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

First Afro Boricua was not Jose Barbosa as listed in the article.

From your own Wikipedia page on: RAMON EMETERIO BETANCES was the first Puerto Rican Physician having received his Medical Degree from the University of Paris. Betances received his medical degree from the University of Paris in 1855. Upon his return to Mayagüez, he founded a hospital and worked to save Puerto Ricans from the ravages of a cholera epidemic.

. . . "In 1846, Betances obtained his baccalauréat (high school diploma). After an extended vacation in Puerto Rico, he went on to study medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of Paris from 1848 until 1855, with a short interlude at the Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier for specific courses in the summer of 1852.[10]" 

. . . Betances received his medical degree from the University of Paris in 1855. Upon his return to Mayagüez, he founded a hospital and worked to save Puerto Ricans from the ravages of a cholera epidemic. . . Ramon Emeterio Betances image appears on the Old Luden's Cough Drops box. I'm Just Saying.

SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramón_Emeterio_Betances

emilia colon — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.53.253.155 (talk) 19:31, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

There's A LOT of mixed-race people in this article

As we all may know, most Puerto Ricans are mixed with varying amounts of white Spanish, black African, and native Taino, in varying degrees, so many can be considered Mulatto or Tri-racial due to visual appearance and being "evenly mixed" ancestry wise.

That being said Puerto Rico did NOT use the One drop rule to include Mixed-race people as black, in fact it historically used the opposite. So why are visibly mixed race people included in a article that should only be mentioning Puerto Ricans of full or predominant black African blood.

I noticed in many articles about "Afro Latin Americans" that are supposed to be solely about Latin Americans who are full or predominantly black African, mixed race people are conveniently added in. Only few Latin American countries (maybe Colombia & Panama) counted mixed-race people with blacks, but in majority of others like DR, PR, Cuba etc they were often counted separately. Counting mixed-race people here means we would have to add atleast half of famous Puerto Ricans to the article. MonsenorNouel (talk) 12:36, 7 December 2023 (UTC)