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Between Race and Empire Lisa Brock

Between Race and Empire By Lisa Brock

Between Race and Empire by Lisa Brock


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For many black Americans, the prominence and success of black Cubans in early efforts for independence and abolition highlighted a sense of racial identity and pride. This book traces the relations between Cubans and African-Americans from the abolitionist era to the Cuban Revolution of 1959.

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Between Race and Empire: African-Americans and Cubans before the Cuban Revolution by Lisa Brock

For many black Americans, the prominence and success of black Cubans in early efforts for independence and abolition highlighted a sense of racial identity and pride, while after U.S. intervention the suppression of Afro-Cuban aspirations created a strong interest among African-Americans concerning Cuban affairs. This collection, edited by a black Cuban and a black American, traces the relations between Cubans and African-Americans from the abolitionist era to the Cuban Revolution of 1959. The eleven essays gathered here, written by scholars from both countries, heighten our appreciation of African-Americans as international actors and challenge the notion that Cubans had little or no race consciousness. This is the first study of the world capitalist system to track the international consciousness of working peoples, peoples of color, and women. With a focus on two sets of peoples not in state power, Between Race and Empire expands our understanding of \\u0022history from below,\\u0022 and reflects current trends in PanAfricanist and African Diaspora studies by tracing a little-studied linkage between two peoples of African descent.

Between Race and Empire Reviews

...delves into topics such as religion and protest poetry. Layers of history are peeled back, building an understanding of political and racial dynamics between the darker citizens of the United States and Cuba.
-Emerge Magazine

The contributors to this excellent study have uncovered a rich legacy of two peoples who not only fought racism and imperialism but also interacted in the process.
-Hispanic Magazine


The rich and complex relationship between Afro-Americans and Afro-Cubans is the theme of the eleven essays gathered in this charming volume. The strength of this anthology is that it explores this relationship from 'below.' The essays focus on music, poetry, literature, and sports as the means which two peoples of color were able to express their uniqueness and develop their parallel race consciousness.
-Ethnic Conflict: Research Digest

About Lisa Brock

Lisa Brock is Associate Professor of African History and Diaspora Studies, Department of Liberal Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Digna Castaneda Fuertes is Senior Professor of Caribbean History and Senior Advisor for graduate diplomas in History, University of Havana, Cuba.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

Introduction: Between Race and Empire
Lisa Brock

1 Minerva: A Magazine for Women (and Men) of Color
Carmen Montejo Arrechea

2 Telling Silences and Making Community: Afro-Cubans and African -Americans in Ybor City and Tampa,
1899-1915
Nancy Raquel Mirabal

3 The African-American Press and United States Involvement in Cuba, 1902-1912
David J. Hellwig

4 Encounters in the African Atlantic World: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in Cuba
Jualynne E. Dodson

5 Cuba's Roaring Twenties: Race Consciousness and the Column Ideales de una Raza
Rosalie Schwartz

6 Marcus Garvey in Cuba: Urrutia, Cubans, and Black Nationalism
Tomas Fernandez Robaina

7
Nicolas Guillen and Langston Hughes: Convergences and Divergences
Keith Ellis

8 Not Just Black: African Americans, Cubans, and Baseball
Lisa Brock and Bijan Baye

9 Cuban Social Poetry and the Struggle against to Racisms
Carmen Gomez Garcia

10 CuBop! Afro-Cuban Music and Mid-Twentieth Century American Culture
Geoffrey Jacques

11 The African-American Press Greets the Cuban Revolution
Van Gosse

Epilogue
Digna Castaneda Fuertes

About the Editors and Contributors
Index

Additional information

CIN1566395879A
9781566395878
1566395879
Between Race and Empire: African-Americans and Cubans before the Cuban Revolution by Lisa Brock
Used - Well Read
Paperback
Temple University Press,U.S.
19980414
328
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