Afro-Cuban Voices: On Race and Identity in Contemporary Cuba

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Based on the firsthand testimony of prominent Afro-Cubans who live in Cuba, this book of interviews looks at ways that race affects daily life on the island." "All responded to four controversial questions: What is it like to be black in Cuba? How has the revolution made a difference? To what extent is that difference true today? What can be done? Exposing the contradictions of both racial stereotyping and cultural assimilation, their answers make the case that the issue of race in Cuba, no matter how hard to ...
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Overview

Based on the firsthand testimony of prominent Afro-Cubans who live in Cuba, this book of interviews looks at ways that race affects daily life on the island." "All responded to four controversial questions: What is it like to be black in Cuba? How has the revolution made a difference? To what extent is that difference true today? What can be done? Exposing the contradictions of both racial stereotyping and cultural assimilation, their answers make the case that the issue of race in Cuba, no matter how hard to define, will not be ignored.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780813017358
  • Publisher: University Press of Florida
  • Publication date: 5/28/2000
  • Series: Contemporary Cuba
  • Edition description: First
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 212
  • Product dimensions: 6.31 (w) x 9.26 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Foreword
Foreword
Preface
Introduction: Race and the Politics of Memory in Contemporary Black Cuban Consciousness 1
Pt. I The Lived Experience of Race 39
Ch. 1 Under the Streetlamp: A Journalist's Story 41
Ch. 2 The Only Black Family on the Block 49
Ch. 3 Issues of Black Health 61
Pt. II The Representation of Race 75
Ch. 4 Holy Lust: Whiteness and Race Mixing in the Historical Novel 77
Ch. 5 The Dead Come at Midnight: Scripting the White Aesthetic/Black Ethic 87
Ch. 6 Todo en Sepia: An All-Black Theater Project 97
Ch. 7 Tackling Racism in Performing Arts and the Media 108
Ch. 8 Poetry, Prostitution, and Gender Esteem 118
Pt. III Race and Identity 127
Ch. 9 Africa, the Caribbean, and Afro-America in Cuban Film 129
Ch. 10 Crafting the Sacred Bata Drums 140
Ch. 11 Grupo Antillano and the Marginalization of Black Artists 147
Ch. 12 A National Cultural Identity? Homogenizing Monomania and the Plural Heritage 154
Ch. 13 Grounding the Race Dialogue: Diaspora and Nation 162
Notes 171
Glossary of Afro-Cuban Terms 179
Selected Bibliography 181
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