Jiménez Román / Miriam Jimenez Roman / Flores The Afro-Latin@ Reader

History and Culture in the United States
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9131-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 584 Seiten

Reihe: A John Hope Franklin Center Book

A kaleidoscopic view of Black Latin@s in the United States, addressing history, music, gender, class, and media representations in more than sixty selections, including essays, memoirs, journalism, poetry, and interviews.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jiménez Román, Miriam

Miriam Jimenez Roman, Jimenez Roman

Flores, Juan

Weitere Mitwirkende

Wood, Peter H.

Forbes, Jack D.

Gould, Virginia Meacham

Greenbaum, Susan D.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments xiii

Editorial Note xv

Introduction 1

I. Historical Background before 1900

The Earliest Africans in North America / Peter H. Wood 19

Black Pioneers: The Spanish-Speaking Afroamericans of the Southwest / Jack D. Forbes 27

Slave and Free Women of Color in the Spanish Ports of New Orleans, Mobile, and Pensacola / Virginia Meacham Gould 38

Afro-Cubans in Tampa / Susan D. Greenbaum 51

Excerpt from Pulling the Muse from the Drum / Adrian Castro 62

II. Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

Excerpt from Racial Integrity: A Plea for the Establishment of a Chair of Negro History in Our Schools and Colleges / Arturo Alfonso Schomburg 67

The World of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg / Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof 70

Invoking Arturo Schomburg's Legacy in Philadelphia / Evelyne Laurent-Perrault 92

III. Afro-Latin@s on the Color Line

Black Cuban, Black American / Evelio Grillo 99

A Puerto Rican in New York and Other Sketches / Jesus Colon 113

Melba Alvarado, El Club Cubano Inter-Americano, and the Creation of Afro-Cubanidades in New York City / Nancy Raquel Mirabel 120

An Uneven Playing Field: Afro-Latinos in Major League Baseball / Adrian Burgos Jr. 127

Changing Identities: An Afro-Latino Family Portrait / Gabriel Haslip-Viera 142

Eso era tremendo!: An Afro-Cuban Musician Remembers / Graciela Perez Gutierrez 150

IV. Roots of Salsa: Afro-Latin@ Popular Music

From "Indianola" to "No Colá": The Strange Career of the Afro-Puerto Rican Musician / Ruth Glasser 157

Excerpt from cu/bop / Louis Reyes Rivera 176

Bauzá–Gillespie–Latin/JAzz: Difference, Modernity, and the Black Caribbean / Jairo Moreno 177

Contesting that Damned Mambo: Arsenio Rodriguez and the People of El Barrio and the Bronx in the 1950s / David F. Garcia 187

Boogaloo and Latin Soul / Juan Flores 199

Excerpt from the salsa of bethesda fountain / Tato Laviera 207

V. Black Latin@ Sixties

Hair Conking: Buy Black / Carlos Cooks 211

Carlos A. Cooks: Dominican Garveyite in Harlem / Pedro R. Rivera 215

Down These Mean Streets / Piri Thomas 219

African Things / Victor Hernandez Cruz 232

Black Notes and "You Do Something to Me" / Sandra Maria Esteves 233

Before People Called Me a Spic, They Called Me a Nigger / Pablo "Yoruba" Guzman 235

Excerpt from Jíbaro, My Pretty Nigger / Felipe Luciano 244

The Yoruba Orisha Tradition Comes to New York City / Marta Moreno Vega 245

Reflections and Lived Experiences of Afro-Latin@ Religiosity / Luis Barrios 252

Discovering Myself / Un Testimonio / Josefina Baez 266

VI. Afro-Latinas

The Black Puerto Rican Woman in Contemporary American Society / Angela Jorge 269

Something Latino Was Up with Us / Spring Redd 276

Excerpt from Poem for My Grifa-Rican Sistah, or Broken Ends Broken Promises / Mariposa (María Teresa Fernandez) 280

Latinegras: Desired Women—Undesirable Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, and Wives / Marta I. Cruz-Janzen 282

Letter to a Friend / Nilaja Sun 296

Uncovering Mirrors: Afro-Latina Lesbian Subjects / Ana M. Lara 298

The Black Bellybutton of a Bongo / Marianela Medrano 314

VII. Public Images and (Mis)Representations

Notes on Eusebia Cosme and Juano Hernandez / Miriam Jimenez Roman 319

Desde el Mero Medio: Race Discrimination within the Latino Community / Carlos Flores 323

Displaying Identity: Dominicans in the Black Mosaic of Washington, D.C. / Ginetta E. B. Candelario 326

Bringing the Soul: Afros, Black Empowerment, and Lucecita Benítez / Yeidy M. Rivero 343

Can BET Make You Black? Remixing and Reshaping Latin@s on Black Entertainment Television / Ejima Baker 358

The Afro-Latino Connection: Can this group be the bridge to a broadbased Black-Hispanic alliance? / Alan Hughes and Milca Esdaille 364

VIII. Afro-Latin@s in the Hip Hop Zone

Ghettocentricity, Blackness, and Pan-Latinidad / Raquel Z. Rivera 373

Chicano Rap Roots: Afro-Mexico and Black-Brown Cultural Exchange / Pancho McFarland 387

The Rise and Fall of Reggaeton: From Daddy Yankee to Tego Calderon and Beyond / Wayne Marshall 396

Do Platanos Go wit' Collard Greens? / David Lamb 404

Divas Don't Yield / Sofia Quintero 411

IX. Living Afro-Latinidads

An Afro-Latina's Quest for Inclusion / Yvette Modestin 417

Retracing Migration: From Samana to New York and Back Again / Ryan Mann-Hamilton 422

Negotiating among Invisibilities: Tales of Afro-Latinidades in the United States / Vielka Cecilia Hoy 426

We Are Black Too: Experiences of a Honduran Garifuna / Aida Lambert 431

Profile of an Afro-Latina: Black, Mexican, Both / Maria Rosario Jackson 434

Enrique Patterson: Black Cuban Intellectual in Cuban Miami / Antonio Lopez 439

Reflections about Race by a Negrito Acomplejao / Eduardo Bonilla-Silva 445

Divisible Blackness: Reflections on Heterogeneity and Racial Identity / Silvio Torres-Saillant 453

Nigger-Reecan Blues / Willie Perdomo 467

X. Afro-Latin@s: Present and Future Tenses

How Race Counts for Hispanic Americans / John R. Logan 471

Bleach in the Rainbow: Latino Ethnicity and Preferences for Whiteness / William A. Darity Jr., Jason Dietrich, and Darrick Hamilton 485

Brown Like Me? / Ed Morales 499

Against the Myth of Racial Harmony in Puerto Rico / Afro-Puerto Rican Testimonies Project 508

Mexican Ways, African Roots / Lisa Hoppenjans and Ted Richardson 512

Afro-Latin@s and the Latino Workplace / Tanya Kateri Hernandez 520

Racial Politics in Multiethnic America: Black and Latina/o Identities and Coalitions 527

Afro-Latinism in United States Society: A Commentary / James Jennings 540

Sources and Permissions 547

Contributors 551

Index 559

Über Autor(innen)

Miriam Jiménez Román is a visiting scholar in the Africana Studies Program at New York University and Executive Director of afrolatin@ forum, a research and resource center focusing on Black Latin@s in the United States.Juan Flores is Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. His most recent works include The Diaspora Strikes Back: Caribeño Tales of Learning and Turning, From Bomba To Hip-Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity, and the English translation of Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá’s book Cortijo’s Wake, also published by Duke University Press.