NEGRITA interrogates the cultural prejudice and presumptions surrounding the lives of Afro Latina women in America. In her first film, director Magdalena Albizu, a self-described negrita, explores an unconscious ideology of anti-Blackness in which both American and Latino cultures perpetuate a false narrative of Black as undesirable otherness. Through family pictures, childhood videos, and frank conversations, NEGRITA uses the director's own personal history to illuminate the larger tapestry of shared experiences throughout the Black and Latin communities. Albizu, and a group of women from the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Honduras, and Panama, collectively confront their own Black identities, empowering themselves as Afro Latinas.

This documentary features interviews with Melba Malin Falú, Dr. Georgina Falú, Inez Guillen, Milteri Tucker, Johanna Felipe, Tamika Burgess, Odilia Rivera Santos, Abigail M. Horace, Vanessa K. Valdés, and Sarah Aponte.