“Living violence-free”: new study exposes how racism affects the well-being of afroboricua youths

Published in El Nuevo Día

(March 31, 2026 – San Juan, Puerto Rico) “A sense of security to live free from violence”. That is one of the definitions of “well-being” shared by young people who participated in a new study by Colectivo Ilé, which collects the experiences of 69 Afro-Puerto Ricans aged 18 to 24, and in which the majority also stated that they had –in their childhood and youth– experiences of racial discrimination and scarcity of essential services.

“If we don’t name the problem, how are we going to solve it? We seek to elaborate on the scenarios where racial discrimination has occurred. Getting down to specifics gives us clues about where we still need to do this anti-racist education work, which is a matter of public health,” said Miriam Morales Suárez, the researcher in charge of the anti-racist and decolonial analysis at Colectivo Ilé.

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