The Afro-Latin@ Reader

History and Culture in the United States
Herausgeber: Jiménez Román, Miriam; Flores, Juan

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Produktbeschreibung

An edited volume on the history and culture of Afro-Latino/as in the US

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 584
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 953g
• ISBN-13: 9780822345589
• ISBN-10: 0822345587
• Artikelnr.: 29925914

Autorenporträt

Miriam Jiménez Román is a visiting scholar in the Africana Studies Program at New York University and Executive Director of afrolatin@ forum, a research and resource center focusing on Black Latin@s in the United States. Juan Flores is Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. His most recent works include The Diaspora Strikes Back: Caribeño Tales of Learning and Turning, From Bomba To Hip-Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity, and the English translation of Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá’s book Cortijo’s Wake, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments xiii
Editorial Note xv
Introduction 1
I. Historical Background before 1900
The Earliest Africans in North America / Peter H. Wood 19
Black Pioneers: The Spanish-Speaking Afroamericans of the Southwest / Jack
D. Forbes 27
Slave and Free Women of Color in the Spanish Ports of New Orleans, Mobile,
and Pensacola / Virginia Meacham Gould 38
Afro-Cubans in Tampa / Susan D. Greenbaum 51
Excerpt from Pulling the Muse from the Drum / Adrian Castro 62
II. Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
Excerpt from Racial Integrity: A Plea for the Establishment of a Chair of
Negro History in Our Schools and Colleges / Arturo Alfonso Schomburg 67
The World of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg / Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof 70
Invoking Arturo Schomburg's Legacy in Philadelphia / Evelyne
Laurent-Perrault 92
III. Afro-Latin@s on the Color Line
Black Cuban, Black American / Evelio Grillo 99
A Puerto Rican in New York and Other Sketches / Jesus Colon 113
Melba Alvarado, El Club Cubano Inter-Americano, and the Creation of
Afro-Cubanidades in New York City / Nancy Raquel Mirabel 120
An Uneven Playing Field: Afro-Latinos in Major League Baseball / Adrian
Burgos Jr. 127
Changing Identities: An Afro-Latino Family Portrait / Gabriel Haslip-Viera
142
Eso era tremendo!: An Afro-Cuban Musician Remembers / Graciela Perez
Gutierrez 150
IV. Roots of Salsa: Afro-Latin@ Popular Music
From "Indianola" to "No Colá": The Strange Career of the Afro-Puerto Rican
Musician / Ruth Glasser 157
Excerpt from cu/bop / Louis Reyes Rivera 176
Bauzá–Gillespie–Latin/JAzz: Difference, Modernity, and the Black Caribbean
/ Jairo Moreno 177
Contesting that Damned Mambo: Arsenio Rodriguez and the People of El Barrio
and the Bronx in the 1950s / David F. Garcia 187
Boogaloo and Latin Soul / Juan Flores 199
Excerpt from the salsa of bethesda fountain / Tato Laviera 207
V. Black Latin@ Sixties
Hair Conking: Buy Black / Carlos Cooks 211
Carlos A. Cooks: Dominican Garveyite in Harlem / Pedro R. Rivera 215
Down These Mean Streets / Piri Thomas 219
African Things / Victor Hernandez Cruz 232
Black Notes and "You Do Something to Me" / Sandra Maria Esteves 233
Before People Called Me a Spic, They Called Me a Nigger / Pablo "Yoruba"
Guzman 235
Excerpt from Jíbaro, My Pretty Nigger / Felipe Luciano 244
The Yoruba Orisha Tradition Comes to New York City / Marta Moreno Vega 245
Reflections and Lived Experiences of Afro-Latin@ Religiosity / Luis Barrios
252
Discovering Myself / Un Testimonio / Josefina Baez 266
VI. Afro-Latinas
The Black Puerto Rican Woman in Contemporary American Society / Angela
Jorge 269
Something Latino Was Up with Us / Spring Redd 276
Excerpt from Poem for My Grifa-Rican Sistah, or Broken Ends Broken Promises
/ Mariposa (María Teresa Fernandez) 280
Latinegras: Desired Women—Undesirable Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, and
Wives / Marta I. Cruz-Janzen 282
Letter to a Friend / Nilaja Sun 296
Uncovering Mirrors: Afro-Latina Lesbian Subjects / Ana M. Lara 298
The Black Bellybutton of a Bongo / Marianela Medrano 314
VII. Public Images and (Mis)Representations
Notes on Eusebia Cosme and Juano Hernandez / Miriam Jimenez Roman 319
Desde el Mero Medio: Race Discrimination within the Latino Community /
Carlos Flores 323
Displaying Identity: Dominicans in the Black Mosaic of Washington, D.C. /
Ginetta E. B. Candelario 326
Bringing the Soul: Afros, Black Empowerment, and Lucecita Benítez / Yeidy
M. Rivero 343
Can BET Make You Black? Remixing and Reshaping Latin@s on Black
Entertainment Television / Ejima Baker 358
The Afro-Latino Connection: Can this group be the bridge to a broadbased
Black-Hispanic alliance? / Alan Hughes and Milca Esdaille 364
VIII. Afro-Latin@s in the Hip Hop Zone
Ghettocentricity, Blackness, and Pan-Latinidad / Raquel Z. Rivera 373
Chicano Rap Roots: Afro-Mexico and Black-Brown Cultural Exchange / Pancho
McFarland 387
The Rise and Fall of Reggaeton: From Daddy Yankee to Tego Calderon and
Beyond / Wayne Marshall 396
Do Platanos Go wit' Collard Greens? / David Lamb 404
Divas Don't Yield / Sofia Quintero 411
IX. Living Afro-Latinidads
An Afro-Latina's Quest for Inclusion / Yvette Modestin 417
Retracing Migration: From Samana to New York and Back Again / Ryan
Mann-Hamilton 422
Negotiating among Invisibilities: Tales of Afro-Latinidades in the United
States / Vielka Cecilia Hoy 426
We Are Black Too: Experiences of a Honduran Garifuna / Aida Lambert 431
Profile of an Afro-Latina: Black, Mexican, Both / Maria Rosario Jackson 434
Enrique Patterson: Black Cuban Intellectual in Cuban Miami / Antonio Lopez
439
Reflections about Race by a Negrito Acomplejao / Eduardo Bonilla-Silva 445
Divisible Blackness: Reflections on Heterogeneity and Racial Identity /
Silvio Torres-Saillant 453
Nigger-Reecan Blues / Willie Perdomo 467
X. Afro-Latin@s: Present and Future Tenses
How Race Counts for Hispanic Americans / John R. Logan 471
Bleach in the Rainbow: Latino Ethnicity and Preferences for Whiteness /
William A. Darity Jr., Jason Dietrich, and Darrick Hamilton 485
Brown Like Me? / Ed Morales 499
Against the Myth of Racial Harmony in Puerto Rico / Afro-Puerto Rican
Testimonies Project 508
Mexican Ways, African Roots / Lisa Hoppenjans and Ted Richardson 512
Afro-Latin@s and the Latino Workplace / Tanya Kateri Hernandez 520
Racial Politics in Multiethnic America: Black and Latina/o Identities and
Coalitions 527
Afro-Latinism in United States Society: A Commentary / James Jennings 540
Sources and Permissions 547
Contributors 551
Index 559