ISBN:
9780822345589
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (586 p)
Series Statement:
a John Hope Franklin Center Book
Parallel Title:
Print version The Afro-Latin Reader : History and Culture in the United States
DDC:
305.800973
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
A kaleidoscopic view of Black Latin@s in the United States, addressing history, music, gender, class, and media representations in more than sixty selections, including essays, memoirs, journalism, poetry, and interviews
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Editorial Note; Introduction; I. Historical Background before 1900; Peter H. Wood: The Earliest Africans in North America; Jack D. Forbes: Black Pioneers: The Spanish-Speaking Afro-Americans of the Southwest; Virginia Meacham Gould: Slave and Free Women of Color in the Spanish Ports of New Orleans, Mobile, and Pensacola; Susan D. Greenbaum: Afro-Cubans in Tampa; Adrián Castro: Excerpt from ""Pulling the Muse from the Drum""; II. Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
Description / Table of Contents:
Arthur A. Schomburg: Excerpt from ""Racial Integrity: A Plea for the Establishment of a Chair of Negro History in Our Schools and Colleges""Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof: The World of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg; Evelyne Laurent-Perrault: Invoking Arturo Schomburg's Legacy in Philadelphia; III. Afro-Latins on the Color Line; Evelio Grillo: Black Cuban, Black American; Jesús Colón: A Puerto Rican in New and Other Sketches; Nancy Raquel Mirabal: Melba Alvarado, El Club Cubano Inter-Americano, and the Creation of Afro-Cubanidades in New York City
Description / Table of Contents:
Adrian Burgos Jr.: An Uneven Playing Field: Afro-Latinos in Major League BasballGabriel Haslip-Viera: Changing Identities: An Afro-LatinFamily Portrait; Graciela: ¡Eso era tremendo!: An Afro-Cuban Musician Remembers; IV. Roots of Salsa: Afro-Latin@ Popular Music; Ruth Glasser: From ""Indianola"" to "Ño Colá": The Stranger Career of the Afro-Puerto Rican Musician; Louis Reyes Rivera: Excerpt from ""cu/bop""; Jairo Moreno: Bauzá-Gillespie-Latin/Jazz: Difference, Modernity, and the Black Carribbean
Description / Table of Contents:
David F. García: Contesting that Damned Mambo: Arsenio Rodríguez and the People of El Barrio and the Bronx in the 1950sJuan Flores: Boogaloo and Latin Soul; Tato Laviera: Excerpt from ""the salsa of bethesda fountain""; V. Black LatinSixties; Carlos Cooks: Hair Conking; Buy Black; Pedro R. Rivera: Carlos A. Cooks: Dominican Garveyite in Harlem; Piri Thomas: Down These Mean Streets; Victor Hernández Cruz: African Things; Sandra María Esteves: Black Notes and ""You Do Something to Me""; Pablo " Yoruba" Guzmán: Before People Called Me a Spic, They Called me a Nigger
Description / Table of Contents:
Felipe Luciano: Excerpt from ""Jíbaro, My Pretty Nigger""Marta Moreno Vega: The Yoruba Orisha Tradition Comes to New York City; Luis Barrios: Reflections and Lived Experiences of Afro-LatinReligiosity; Sherezada ""Chiqui"" Vicioso: Discovering Myself: Un Testimonio; Josefina Báez: Excerpt from ""Dominicanish""; VI. Afro-Latinas; Angela Jorge: The Black Puerto Rican Woman in Contemporary American Society; Spring Redd: Something Latino Was Up with Us; Mariposa (María Teresa Fernández): Excerpt from ""Poem for My Grifa-Rican Sistah, or Broken Ends Broken Promises""
Description / Table of Contents:
Marta I. Cruz-Janzen: Latinegras: Desired Women-Undesirable Mothers, Daughterse, Sisters, and Wives
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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