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I am currently teaching a course I designed entitled Deporte Negrx: AfroLatinx Sport Experience. This course examines the Black Latin American and AfroLatinx sporting experience over time. Due to historical myths of Black athletic superiority, biological pseudoscience, and social conditions that many Afrodescendants are subjected to, sport has been a domain where Black individuals have been hyper visible. Their hypervisibility and international achievements have brought much prestige to their countries. However, their success on behalf of the nation doesn't equate to improved social conditions in Black communities. Additionally, the overrepresentation of Afrodescendants in international sporting competitions forces Latin American countries to contend with the contradictions in many of the mestize dominant nationalisms that permeate the region.