Search Results for Afro-Cuban

... of recognition and visibility that Afro-Cubans had suffered in Cuba, implicitly questioning the discriminatory practices still prevalent in the society. In 1964 Morera married Walterio Carbonell, a noted Afro-Cuban intellectual. Carbonell had published Cómo surgió la cultura nacional in 1961, one of the first...

... of the black Cuban Partido Independiente de Color (the Independent Party of Color) and thousands of other Afro-Cubans through the plane of the intimate. The author argues that Rolando’s film challenges the myth of racial equality throughout Cuba’s modern history by celebrating Afro-Cuban traditions, from...

...Devyn Spence Benson; Antonio López This essay recovers the history of 1960s and 1970s black movements in Cuba through an examination of works by Afro-Cuban intellectuals and their meetings with Caribbean thinkers to show the coexistence of mestizaje and black consciousness as a defining...

...Anne Garland Mahler In 1968, Nicolás Guillén Landrián, Afro-Cuban filmmaker and nephew of poet Nicolás Guillén, was commissioned by the Cuban Film Institute to make a didactic documentary on the Havana Greenbelt agricultural campaign. Instead, Guillén Landrián used this film, Coffea arábiga...

...Antonio López; Antonio López This essay introduces a special section on the Afro-Cuban poet and intellectual Nancy Morejón’s 1982 book Nación y mestizaje en Nicolás Guillén ( Nation and Mestizaje in Nicolás Guillén ). It sets up the contributors by surveying the literary and political trajectory...

... Alejandra Bronfman, Measures of Equality: Social Science, Citizenship, and Race in Cuba, 1920–1940 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004). 35 Alejandro de la Fuente observes that the opinion at the time “was that Afro-Cubans themselves had broken the fragile boundaries of Cuban...

... (2005): 969. Afrocubanism became a cultural expression focused on highlighting in literature the transculturative nature of Afro-Cuban social realities. 12 Gras, “ El Son de los Preteridos ,” 18. 13 González, “Cultural Mestizaje,” 997; González cites Morejón, Nación y mestizaje , 199...

... and disseminated among the African American and Afro-diasporic communities in both New York and Florida by Juan Bonilla and Joaquin Granados, Afro-Cuban men living in the diaspora. As the official agents, these men made sure that Minerva circulated widely and reached both African American and Afro-diasporic...

... in Suriname. 22 The 1970s and early 1980s marked a peak in the essays, poetry, and literature on the enslaved and slavery written by Cuban historians and Afro-Cuban authors, as well as the continued translation into Spanish of books by anglophone and francophone Caribbean writers. A generation of Afro...

... and tomorrow than of yesterday. These are the sounds of Greater Havana, of musicians coming and going between the island and the US mainland, of Afro-Cuban rhythms crossed with Colombian cumbia and Haitian konpa and Spanish rock. These are the sounds of (Cuban) Miami. These sounds go unheard...

..., a regulation that prohibited the organization of people along racial lines in Cuba and bore the name of its proponent, Morúa Delgado, an Afro-Cuban politician himself. In 1912, the PIC organized an armed revolt that prompted the government’s action and ended with the killing of between...

... Götter: Geschichte und Vorstellungswelt einer afrokubanischen Religion (1991), Wizards and Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition (2002), and The Cooking of History: How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion (2013), as well as the editor of several volumes on Caribbean and Afro...

..., complained of social and structural racism. 2. The reference to the Haitianization of Cuba is from the following: Pedro Pérez Sarduy and Jean Stubbs, Introduction: Race and the Politics of Memory in Contemporary Black Cuban Consciousness in Afro-Cuban Voices: On Race and Identity in Contemporary Cuba...

... that I was omitting this series from my chapter in part because of the exhaustive scholarship on it, I also confessed that I disliked that work and considered it the least moving of her oeuvre. I found in the series problematic appropriations of Afro-Cuban religion and iconography and a frustrating...

.... Her central target is Cuba and Cubanness, but it could just as easily be any other national category into which assumptions about culture, race, exoticism, and timelessness have been poured. Like Stephan Palmié's suggestion that looking hard (or in Vazquez's case, listening hard) at Afro , Cuban...

... assemblage that is racial-colonial-heteropatriarchal capitalism (e.g., Afro-Cuban antiracists who returned to the island and invested themselves in anti-imperialism and anticapitalism above all else). Lastly, I would like to ask whether there are other ways of writing about iconic Afro-Latinx individuals...

... is the author of Antiracism in Cuba: The Unfinished Revolution (2016) and an editor of Afrocubanas: History, Thought, and Cultural Practices (2020). O dette C asamayor -C isneros is a Cuban-born writer and scholar and associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Focused on the Afro–Latin...

... lampooned Afro-Cuban civil rights leaders and dismissed the feminist movement as a menace to the patriarchal “happy home.” 22 Indeed, despite his populist appeal, Liborio domesticated populist grievances and rancor. He may have been a guajiro and may have sarcastically voiced an anti-interventionist...

... For a fictional rendering of Estevanico, see Leila Lalami, The Moor’s Account (New York: Pantheon, 2014). For recent scholarship on Plácido, see Matt Pettway, Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection: Manzano, Plácido, and Afro-Latino Religion (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2019...

... to Free Labor, 1860–1899 (Pitts-burgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh, 1985), the emancipation of enslaved blacks in Cuba, which culminated in 1886, was a gradual process, guided by a system of patronato , or tutelage, that was under the control of white planters but that enslaved Afro-Cubans learned...