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Unbecoming Blackness
2012
Overview
2014 Runner-Up, MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural StudiesIn Unbecoming Blackness, Antonio Lopez 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.Lopez 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, Romulo Lachatanere, 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.
Publisher
NYU Press,New York University Press
Subject
/ African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
/ American literature -- Cuban American authors
/ Authors
/ Blacks
/ Blacks -- United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
/ Cuba
/ Cuban Americans -- Ethnic identity
/ Cuban Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
/ Cultural
/ Diaspora
/ Literacy
/ U.S.A
ISBN
9780814765463, 0814765467, 0814765475, 9780814765470, 0814765491, 9780814765494
