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

Publication Info. Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 566 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Bibliography 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.
Summary An edited volume on the history and culture of Afro-Latino/as in the US.
Awards American Book Award, 2012
Access DRM-free.
Provenance Purchased with the Lozano Memorial Fund.
Subject African Americans.
African Americans.
Hispanic Americans.
Hispanic Americans.
African Americans -- Relations with Hispanic Americans.
African Americans -- Relations with Hispanic Americans.
United States -- Ethnic relations.
United States.
Ethnic relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Jiménez Román, Miriam, 1951-
Flores, Juan, 1943-2014.
Added Title Afro-Latino reader
Afro-Latina reader
Other Form: Print version: Afro-Latin@ reader Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2010 9780822345589 0822345587 (DLC) 2010005176 (OCoLC)468973235
ISBN 9780822391319 (electronic book)
0822391317 (electronic book)
1283036037
9781283036030
9780822345589 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0822345587 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780822345725 (alkaline paper)
0822345722 (alkaline paper)
Standard No. 9786613036032