Between race and empire
Subtitle: African-Americans and Cubans before the Cuban Revolution
By: edited by Lisa Brock and Digna Castañeda Fuertes.
Contributors: Brock, Lisa, 1956-; Castañeda Fuertes, Digna.
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Philadelphia, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: African Americans -- Relations with Cubans; African Americans -- Civil rights -- History; Blacks -- Civil rights -- Cuba -- History; United States -- Race relations; Cuba -- Race relations; Cuba -- Civilization -- American influences
Description: Eleven essays examine the number of ways that African Americans and Cubans have influenced each other, showing how music, poetry, literature, and sports became the means by which the two peoples of color were able to express their uniqueness and develop their parallel race consciousness.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.