Afro-Cuban voices : on race and identity in contemporary Cuba / edited by Pedro Pérez Sarduy and Jean Stubbs.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pérez Sarduy, Pedro, 1943- editor.

Stubbs, Jean, 1946- editor.

Series:

Contemporary Cuba.

Contemporary Cuba

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Race identity--Cuba.

Black people.

Black people in art.

Black people in literature.

Cuba.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (173 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, 2020.

Summary:

Based on vivid testimonies of 14 prominent Afro-Cubans, this book looks at how race affects daily life in Cuba.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Series Editor's Foreword, by John M. Kirk

Foreword, by Manning Marable and James Early

Preface

Introduction: Race and the Politics of Memory in Contemporary Black Cuban Consciousness

Part I: The Lived Experience of Race

Chapter 1. Under the Streetlamp: A Journalist's Story

Chapter 2. The Only Black Family on the Block

Chapter 3. Issues of Black Health

Part II: The Representation of Race

Chapter 4. Holy Lust: Whiteness and Race Mixing in the Historical Novel

Chapter 5. The Dead Come at Midnight: Scripting the White Aesthetic/Black Ethic

Chapter 6. Todo en Sepia: An All-Black Theater Project

Chapter 7. Tackling Racism in Performing Arts and the Media

Chapter 8. Poetry, Prostitution, and Gender Esteem

Part III: Race and Identity

Chapter 9. Africa, the Caribbean, and Afro-America in Cuban Film

Chapter 10. Crafting the Sacred Batá Drums

Chapter 11. Grupo Antillano and the Marginalization of Black Artists

Chapter 12. A National Cultural Identity? Homogenizing Monomania and the Plural Heritage

Chapter 13. Grounding the Race Dialogue: Diaspora and Nation

Notes

Glossary of Afro-Cuban Terms

Selected Bibliography

Backcover Page.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8130-6555-0

OCLC:

1147903403