The Afro-Latin@ reader / edited by Miriam Jimenez Roman and Juan Flores.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jiménez Román, Miriam, 1951-

Flores, Juan, 1943-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans.

Hispanic Americans.

African Americans--Relations with Hispanic Americans.

United States--Ethnic relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 566 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Afro-Latino reader

Afro-Latina reader

Place of Publication:

Durham [North Carolina] : Duke University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A kaleidoscopic view of Black Latinas in the United States, addressing history, music, gender, class, and media representations in more than sixty selections, including essays, memoirs, journalism, poetry, and interviews.

Contents:

The earliest Africans in North America / Peter H. Wood

Black pioneers : the Spanish-speaking Afro-Americans of the Southwest / Jack D. Forbes

Slave and free women of color in the Spanish ports of New Orleans, Mobile, and Pensacola / Virginia Meacham Gould

Afro-Cubans in Tampa / Susan D. Greenbaum

Excerpt from Pulling the muse from the drum / Adrian Castro

Excerpt from Racial integrity : a plea for the establishment of a chair of Negro history in our schools and colleges / Arturo A. Schomburg

The world of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg / Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof

Invoking Arturo Schomburg's legacy in Philadelphia / Evelyne Laurent-Perrault

Black Cuban, Black American / Evelio Grillo

A Puerto Rican in New York and other sketches / Jesus Colon

Melba Alvarado, El Club Cubano Inter-Americano, and the creation of Afro-Cubanidades in New York City / Nancy Raquel Mirabal

An uneven playing field : Afro-Latinos in major league baseball / Adrian Burgos Jr

Changing identities : an Afro-Latino@ family portrait / Gabriel Haslip-Viera

Eso era tremendo! : an Afro-Cuban musician remembers / Graciela

From "indianola" to "no cola" : the strange career of the Afro-Puerto Rican musician / Ruth Glasser

Excerpt from cu/bop / Louis Reyes Rivera

Bauza-Gillespie-Latin/jazz : difference, modernity, and the black Caribbean / Jairo Moreno

Contesting that damned mambo : Arsenio Rodriguez and the people of El Barrio and the Bronx in the 1950s / David F. Garcia

Boogaloo and Latin Soul / Juan Flores

Excerpt from The salsa of Bethesda Fountain / Tato Laviera

Hair conking; buy black / Carlos Cooks

Carlos A. Cooks : Dominican Garveyite in Harlem / Pedro R. Rivera

Down these mean streets / Piri Thomas

African things / Victor Hernandez Cruz

Black notes and "you do something to me" / Sandra Maria Esteves

Before people called me a spic, they called me a nigger / Pablo "Yoruba" Guzman

Excerpt from Jibaro, my pretty nigger / Felipe Luciano

The Yoruba Orisha tradition comes to New York City / Marta Moreno Vega

Reflections and lived experiences of Afro-Latin@ religiosity / Luis Barrios

Discovering myself : un testimonio / Sherezada "Chiqui" Vicioso

Excerpt from Dominicanish / Josefina Baez

The Black Puerto Rican woman in contemporary American society / Angela Jorge

Something Latino was up with us / Spring Redd

Excerpt from Poem for my Grifa-rican sistah, or broken ends broken promises

Mariposa (Maria Teresa Fernandez)

Latinegras : desired women

undesirable mothers, daughters, sisters, and wives / Marta I. Cruz-Janzen

Letter to a friend / Nilaja Sun

Uncovering mirrors : Afro-Latina lesbian subjects / Ana M. Lara

The black bellybutton of a bongo / Marianela Medrano

Notes on Eusebia Cosme and Juano Hernandez / Miriam Jimenez Roman

Desde el mero medio : race discrimination within the Latin@ community / Carlos Flores

Displaying identity : Dominicans in the Black mosaic of Washington, D.C. / Ginetta E. B. Candelario

Bringing the soul : afros, black empowerment, and Lucecita Benitez / Yeidy M. Rivero

Can BET make you Black? : remixing and reshaping Latin@s on Black Entertainment Television / Ejima Baker

The Afro-Latino connection : can this group be the bridge to a broadbased Black-Hispanic alliance? / Alan Hughes and Milca Esdaille

Ghettocentricity, blackness, and pan-latinidad / Raquel Z. Rivera

Chicano rap roots : Afro-Mexico and black-brown cultural exchange / Pancho McFarland

The rise and fall of reggaeton : from Daddy Yankee to Tego Calderon and beyond / Wayne Marshall

Do platanos go wit' collard greens? / David Lamb

Divas don't yield / Sofia Quintero

An Afro-Latina's quest for inclusion / Yvette Modestin

Retracing migration : from Samana to New York and back again / Ryan Mann-Hamilton

Negotiating among invisibilities : tales of Afro-latinidades in the United States / Vielka Cecilia Hoy

We are black too : experiences of a Honduran garifuna / Aida Lambert

Profile of an Afro-Latina : Black, Mexican, both / Maria Rosario Jackson

Enrique Patterson : Black Cuban intellectual in Cuban Miami / Antonio Lopez

Reflections about race by a negrito acomplejao / Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

Divisible blackness : reflections on heterogeneity and racial identity / Silvio Torres-Saillant

Nigger-Reecan blues / Willie Perdomo

How race counts for Hispanic Americans / John R. Logan

Bleach in the rainbow : Latino ethnicity and preference for whiteness / William A. Darity Jr., Jason Dietrich, and Darrick Hamilton

Brown like me? / Ed Morales

Against the myth of racial harmony in Puerto Rico / Afro-Puerto Rican Testimonies Project

Mexican ways, African roots / Lisa Hoppenjans and Ted Richardson

Afro-Latin@s and the Latin@ workplace / Tanya Kateri Hernandez

Racial politics in multiethnic America : Black and Latina@ identities and coalitions / Mark Sawyer

Afro-Latinism in United States society : a commentary / James Jennings.

Notes:

"A John Hope Franklin Center book."

Description based on print version record

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-03603-7

9786613036032

0-8223-9131-7

OCLC:

680410456