...Karina Lissette Cespedes After Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba . Stout Noelle M. . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2014 . vii + 248 pp. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Books in Brief WORKING THE MALECON Whiteness, Queer...

...James N. Green Machos, Maricones, and Gays: Cuba and Homosexuality Ian Lumsden Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996. xxvii + 263 pp.$69.95 cloth, $22.95 paper Duke University Press 2001 GLQ 7.4-08 Green 10/16/01 5:18 PM Page 649 Book Review...

... to Cuba to attend a weeklong conference, see theater as part of Mayo Teatral, and meet people, led by a longtime curiosity to visit la perla de las Antillas, the site of such renowned controversies and social utopias. Just in case, you walk, and all is splendid. There are almost...

... process that entails “acquiring another culture . . . the loss or uprooting of a previous culture . . . [and] the consequent creation of new cultural phenomena.” This multifaceted, multidirectional process is central to Cuba: “The real history of Cuba...

... festivals, both queer and straight.13 The narrative, as I mentioned above, tells the tale of the emergence of a drag community in La Güinera, a settlement outside Havana. While not the first film about gay life in Cuba — other films, like the aptly named documentary Gay Cuba (dir. Sonja deVries...

...Stephen O. Murray © 1995 OPA (Overseas Publishers Association) 1995 Before Night Falls: A Memoir . Reinaldo Arenas. M. Koch. New York: Viking, 1993. 317+xvii pp. Sexual Politics in Cuba: Machismo, Homosexuality, and AIDS . Marvin Leiner. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1994. 1M+xv pp...

...Lauren J. Gantz ¡Venceremos? The Erotics of Black Self-Making in Cuba Allen Jafari S. Durham : Duke University Press , 2011 . xii + 241 pp . © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Books in Brief Queer Imaginings Kara Thompson Queer Indigenous Studies: Critical...

... Paltz. DOI 10.1215/10642684-­1600770 BOOKS IN BRIEF 621 Shall We Overcome? Lauren J. Gantz ¡Venceremos? The Erotics of Black Self-­Making in Cuba Jafari S. Allen Durham: Duke University Press, 2011. xii + 241 pp. The title...

... Overcome? Lauren J. Gantz ¡Venceremos? The Erotics of Black Self-­Making in Cuba Jafari S. Allen Durham: Duke University Press, 2011. xii + 241 pp. The title of Jafari S. Allen’s latest ethnographic study, ¡Venceremos? The Erotics of Black Self-­Making in Cuba, is inspired by a Cuban...

... Overcome? Lauren J. Gantz ¡Venceremos? The Erotics of Black Self-­Making in Cuba Jafari S. Allen Durham: Duke University Press, 2011. xii + 241 pp. The title of Jafari S. Allen’s latest ethnographic study, ¡Venceremos? The Erotics of Black Self-­Making in Cuba, is inspired by a Cuban...

... examines the transnational dimensions of Santería across several registers, from the history of Cuban migration to the United States to the rise of a tourist- based economy in Cuba, and the increasing use of digital technol- ogy in ritual practices. Beliso- De Jesús elaborates...

... there in the first place not because he loved war so much but because, after fighting in cuba, he just didn’t want to go back to not EXTRACT FROM “WATER, SHOULDERS, INTO THE BLACK PACIFIC” 271 being able to get a cup of coffee at the same louisiana counters where white sol- diers...

... Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Amalia L. Cabezas is associate professor of media and cultural studies at the University of California, Riverside. Her publications include Economies of Desire: Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic (2009), multiple peer...

... time, their sexuality was made hypervisible through the very mechanism of their arrival, since admission to homosexuality in front of a Cuban government panel was one way to qualify to leave Cuba at this time. In the first part of the book, Peña’s retelling of Mariel and Cuban immi- grant...

... See Crosby, Christina Allen, Jafari S. Rosenberg, Jordana ¡Venceremos? The Erotics of Black Self- See Crosby, Christina Making in Cuba, reviewed by Lauren J. Rosenberg, Jordana and Amy Villarejo Gantz...

... surveillance and spectatorship” (16). What is unique about the book is that it takes a hemispheric approach to Latinx sexualities, and it traces the word puta to Cuba, Mexico, Latin American, and Puerto Rico, among other places. The book investigates both the historical and contemporary currents that offer...

... Cabrera explicitly seeks to portray the black people of Cuba in “respectable” terms, as profoundly religious people. A negative sexualization of the black subject is apparent in “First Recol- lection of Isadora Duncan,” but initially Mistral understood...

... Jafari . 2011 . ¡Venceremos? The Erotics of Black Self-Making in Cuba . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Arboleda Ríos Paola . 2011 . “ ¿Ser o estar ‘queer’ en Latinoamérica? El devenir emancipador en: Lemebel, Perlongher y Arenas .” Íconos: Revista de Ciencias Sociales 39 : 111...

...” as unsettled. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 Black/Queer love methodology memory References Allen Jafari . 2011 . ¡Venceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-Making in Cuba . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Allen Jafari . 2012 . “ Black/Queer/Diaspora...