The Afro-Latin@ reader : history and culture in the United States / edited by Miriam Jiménez Román and Juan Flores.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2010.
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xiv, 566 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

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    "A John Hope Franklin Center Book."
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    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 / Adrián 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 / Jesús Colón
    • 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 "ño colá" : the strange career of the Afro-Puerto Rican musician / Ruth Glasser
    • Excerpt from cu/bop / Louis Reyes Rivera
    • Bauzá-Gillespie-Latin/jazz : difference, modernity, and the black Caribbean / Jairo Moreno
    • Contesting that damned mambo : Arsenio Rodríguez and the people of El Barrio and the Bronx in the 1950s / David F. García
    • 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 Hernández Cruz
    • Black notes and "you do something to me" / Sandra María Esteves
    • Before people called me a spic, they called me a nigger / Pablo "Yoruba" Guzmán
    • Excerpt from Jíbaro, 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 Báez
    • 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 (María Teresa Fernández)
    • 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 Hernández / Miriam Jiménez Román
    • 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 Benítez / 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 Calderón and beyond / Wayne Marshall
    • Do plátanos go wit' collard greens? / David Lamb
    • Divas don't yield / Sofia Quintero
    • An Afro-Latina's quest for inclusion / Yvette Modestin
    • Retracing migration : from Samaná 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 / María Rosario Jackson
    • Enrique Patterson : Black Cuban intellectual in Cuban Miami / Antonio López
    • 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 Katerí Hernández
    • Racial politics in multiethnic America : Black and Latina@ identities and coalitions / Mark Sawyer
    • Afro-Latinism in United States society : a commentary / James Jennings.
    Other title(s)
    • Afro-Latino reader
    • Afro-Latina reader
    ISBN
    • 9780822345589 (cloth : alk. paper)
    • 0822345587 (cloth : alk. paper)
    • 9780822345725 (alk. paper)
    • 0822345722 (alk. paper)
    LCCN
    2010005176
    OCLC
    468973235
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