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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:American Literatures Initiative ; 3
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Table of Contents:
  • 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