The Afro-Latin@ reader / edited by Miriam Jiménez Román and Juan Flores.

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Other Authors: Jiménez Román, Miriam, 1951-, Flores, Juan, 1943-2014
Language:English
Published: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2010.
Series:Duke University Press Books.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 566 pages) : illustrations
Variant Title:
Afro-Latino reader
Afro-Latina reader
Format: Electronic eBook
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.