Afro-Latin@ Reader (eBook, PDF)

History and Culture in the United States
Redaktion: Miriam Jimenez Roman, Jimenez Roman

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Produktbeschreibung

The Afro-Latin@ Reader focuses attention on a large, vibrant, yet oddly invisible community in the United States: people of African descent from Latin America and the Caribbean. The presence of Afro-Latin@s in the United States (and throughout the Americas) belies the notion that Blacks and Latin@s are two distinct categories or cultures. Afro-Latin@s are uniquely situated to bridge the widening social divide between Latin@s and African Americans; at the same time, their experiences reveal pervasive racism among Latin@s and ethnocentrism among African Americans. Offering insight into Afro-Latin@ life and new ways to understand culture, ethnicity, nation, identity, and antiracist politics, The Afro-Latin@ Reader presents a kaleidoscopic view of Black Latin@s in the United States. It addresses history, music, gender, class, and media representations in more than sixty selections, including scholarly essays, memoirs, newspaper and magazine articles, poetry, short stories, and interviews.While the selections cover centuries of Afro-Latin@ history, since the arrival of Spanish-speaking Africans in North America in the mid-sixteenth-century, most of them focus on the past fifty years. The central question of how Afro-Latin@s relate to and experience U.S. and Latin American racial ideologies is engaged throughout, in first-person accounts of growing up Afro-Latin@, a classic essay by a leader of the Young Lords, and analyses of U.S. census data on race and ethnicity, as well as in pieces on gender and sexuality, major-league baseball, and religion. The contributions that Afro-Latin@s have made to U.S. culture are highlighted in essays on the illustrious Afro-Puerto Rican bibliophile Arturo Alfonso Schomburg and music and dance genres from salsa to mambo, and from boogaloo to hip hop. Taken together, these and many more selections help to bring Afro-Latin@s in the United States into critical view.Contributors: Afro-Puerto Rican Testimonies Project, Josefina Baez, Ejima Baker, Luis Barrios, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Adrian Burgos Jr., Ginetta E. B. Candelario, Adrian Castro, Jesus Colon, Marta I. Cruz-Janzen, William A. Darity Jr., Milca Esdaille, Sandra Maria Esteves, Maria Teresa Fernandez (Mariposa), Carlos Flores, Juan Flores, Jack D. Forbes, David F. Garcia, Ruth Glasser, Virginia Meecham Gould, Susan D. Greenbaum, Evelio Grillo, Pablo "e;Yoruba"e; Guzman, Gabriel Haslip-Viera, Tanya K. Hernandez, Victor Hernandez Cruz, Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, Lisa Hoppenjans, Vielka Cecilia Hoy, Alan J. Hughes, Maria Rosario Jackson, James Jennings, Miriam Jimenez Roman, Angela Jorge, David Lamb, Aida Lambert, Ana M. Lara, Evelyne Laurent-Perrault, Tato Laviera, John Logan, Antonio Lopez, Felipe Luciano, Louis Pancho McFarland, Ryan Mann-Hamilton, Wayne Marshall, Marianela Medrano, Nancy Raquel Mirabal, Yvette Modestin, Ed Morales, Jairo Moreno, Marta Moreno Vega, Willie Perdomo, Graciela Perez Gutierrez, Sofia Quintero, Ted Richardson, Louis Reyes Rivera, Pedro R. Rivera , Raquel Z. Rivera, Yeidy Rivero, Mark Q. Sawyer, Piri Thomas, Silvio Torres-Saillant, Nilaja Sun, Sherezada "e;Chiqui"e; Vicioso, Peter H. Wood

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 584
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822391319
• Artikelnr.: 54918731

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