Negro soy yo : hip hop and raced citizenship in neoliberal Cuba / Marc D. Perry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perry, Marc D., 1967- author.

Series:

Refiguring American music

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hip-hop--Political aspects--Cuba.

Hip-hop.

Black people--Cuba--Social conditions.

Black people.

Social conditions.

Cuba--Race relations.

Cuba.

Race relations.

Kuba.

Local Subjects:

Kuba.

Physical Description:

xi, 284 pages : illlustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.

Summary:

In Negro Soy Yo Marc D. Perry explores Cuba's hip hop movement as a window into the racial complexities of the island's ongoing transition from revolutionary socialism toward free-market capitalism. Centering on the music and lives of black-identified raperos (rappers), Perry examines the ways these young artists craft notions of black Cuban identity and racial citizenship, along with calls for racial justice, at the fraught confluence of growing Afro-Cuban marginalization and long held perceptions of Cuba as a non-racial nation. Situating hip hop within a long history of Cuban racial politics, Perry discusses the artistic and cultural exchanges between raperos and North American rappers and activists, and their relationships with older Afro-Cuban intellectuals and African American political exiles. He also examines critiques of Cuban patriarchy by female raperos, the competing rise of reggaetón, as well as state efforts to incorporate hip hop into its cultural institutions. At this pivotal moment of Cuban-U.S. relations, Perry's analysis illuminates the evolving dynamics of race, agency, and neoliberal transformation amid a Cuba in historic flux. Book jacket.

Contents:

Raced neoliberalism : groundings for hip hop

Hip hop Cubano : an emergent site of Black life

New revolutionary horizons

Critical self-fashionings and their gendering

Racial challenges and the state

Whither hip hop Cubano?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-272) and index.

ISBN:

9780822359852

0822359855

9780822358855

0822358859

OCLC:

903675195