Unbecoming Blackness : : The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America / / Antonio Lopez.
In Unbecoming Blackness, Antonio López uncovers an important, otherwise unrecognized century-long archive of literature and performance that reveals Cuban America as a space of overlapping Cuban and African diasporic experiences.López shows how Afro-Cuban writers and performers in theU.S. align Cuba...
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Lopez, Antonio, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Unbecoming Blackness : The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America / Antonio Lopez. New York, NY : New York University Press, [2012] ©2012 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda American Literatures Initiative ; 3 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Alberto O’Farrill: A Negrito in Harlem -- 2. Re/Citing Eusebia Cosme -- 3. Supplementary Careers, Boricua Identifications -- 4. Around 1979: Mariel, McDuffie, and the Afterlives of Antonio -- 5. Cosa de Blancos:Cuban American Whiteness and the Afro-Cuban-Occupied House -- Conclusion: “Write the Word Black Twice” -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In Unbecoming Blackness, Antonio López uncovers an important, otherwise unrecognized century-long archive of literature and performance that reveals Cuban America as a space of overlapping Cuban and African diasporic experiences.López shows how Afro-Cuban writers and performers in theU.S. align Cuban black and mulatto identities, often subsumed in the mixed-race and postracial Cuban national imaginaries, with the material and symbolic blackness of African Americans and other Afro-Latinas/os. In the works of Alberto O’Farrill, Eusebia Cosme, Rómulo Lachatañeré, and others, Afro-Cubanness articulates the African diasporic experience in ways that deprive negro and mulato configurations of an exclusive link with Cuban nationalism. Instead, what is invoked is an “unbecoming” relationship between Afro-Cubans in the U.S and their domestic black counterparts. The transformations in Cuban racial identity across the hemisphere, represented powerfully in the literary and performance cultures of Afro-Cubans in the U.S., provide the fullest account of a transnational Cuba, one in which the Cuban American emerges as Afro-Cuban-American, and the Latino as Afro-Latino. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) African Americans Intellectual life 20th century. American literature Cuban American authors. Black people United States Intellectual life 20th century. Blacks Intellectual life 20th century United States. Blacks United States Intellectual life 20th century. Cuban Americans Ethnic identity Cuban Americans Ethnic identity. Cuban Americans Intellectual life 20th century. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110706444 print 9780814765463 https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814765463.001.0001 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814765487 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814765487/original |
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