Unbecoming Blackness : The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America / Antonio Lopez.
2012
E184.C97 L67 2016
Linked e-resources
Linked Resource
Online Access
Details
Title
Unbecoming Blackness : The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America / Antonio Lopez.
Author
Lopez, Antonio, author.
ISBN
9780814765487
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2012]
Copyright
©2012
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
10.18574/nyu/9780814765463.001.0001 doi
Call Number
E184.C97 L67 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.89687291073
Summary
In Unbecoming Blackness, Antonio López 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.López shows how Afro-Cuban writers and performers in theU.S. 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. In the works of Alberto O'Farrill, Eusebia Cosme, Rómulo Lachatañeré, and others, Afro-Cubanness articulates the African diasporic experience in ways that deprive negro and mulato configurations of an exclusive link with Cuban nationalism. Instead, what is invoked is an "unbecoming" relationship between Afro-Cubans in the U.S and their domestic black counterparts. The transformations in Cuban racial identity across the hemisphere, represented powerfully in the literary and performance cultures of Afro-Cubans in the U.S., provide the fullest account of a transnational Cuba, one in which the Cuban American emerges as Afro-Cuban-American, and the Latino as Afro-Latino.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
System Details Note
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. Sep 2023)
Series
American Literatures Initiative ; ; 3
Available in Other Form
print 9780814765463
Linked Resources
Online Access
Record Appears in
Online Resources > Ebooks
All Resources
All Resources
Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Alberto O'Farrill: A Negrito in Harlem
2. Re/Citing Eusebia Cosme
3. Supplementary Careers, Boricua Identifications
4. Around 1979: Mariel, McDuffie, and the Afterlives of Antonio
5. Cosa de Blancos:Cuban American Whiteness and the Afro-Cuban-Occupied House
Conclusion: "Write the Word Black Twice"
Notes
Index
About the Author
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Alberto O'Farrill: A Negrito in Harlem
2. Re/Citing Eusebia Cosme
3. Supplementary Careers, Boricua Identifications
4. Around 1979: Mariel, McDuffie, and the Afterlives of Antonio
5. Cosa de Blancos:Cuban American Whiteness and the Afro-Cuban-Occupied House
Conclusion: "Write the Word Black Twice"
Notes
Index
About the Author