Unbecoming Blackness - The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America Lopez Antonio Paperback
Unbecoming Blackness - The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America Lopez Antonio Paperback 2014 Runner-Up, MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural…
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Unbecoming Blackness - The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America Lopez Antonio Paperback
2014 Runner-Up, MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural StudiesIn Unbecoming Blackness, Antonio L pez 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.L pez shows how Afro-Cuban writers and performers in the U.S. In the works of Alberto O'Farrill, Eusebia Cosme, R mulo Lachata er , and others, Afro-Cubanness articulates the African diasporic experience in ways that deprive negro and mulato configurations of an exclusive link with Cuban nationalism. align Cuban black and mulatto identities, often subsumed in the mixed-race and postracial Cuban national imaginaries, with the material and symbolic blackness of African Americans and other Afro-Latinas/os.
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