The Afro-Latin@ reader : history and culture in the United States
By: edited by Miriam Jiménez Román and Juan Flores.
Contributors: Jiménez Román, Miriam, 1951-; Flores, Juan, 1943-
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Durham [NC]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 566
ISBN-13: 9780822345589; 9780822345725
Subjects: African Americans; Hispanic Americans; African Americans -- Relations with Hispanic Americans; United States -- Ethnic relations
Other titles: Afro-Latino reader; Afro-Latina reader
Description: "The Afro-Latin@ Reader focuses attention on a large, vibrant, yet oddly invisible community in the United States: people of African descent from Latin America and the Caribbean. The presence of Afro-Latin@s in the United States (and throughout the Americas) belies the notion that Blacks and Latin@s are two distinct categories or cultures. Afro-Latin@s are uniquely situated to bridge the widening social divide between Latin@s and African Americans; at the same time, their experiences reveal pervasive racism among Latin@s and ethnocentrism among African Americans. Offering insight into Afro-Latin@ life and new ways to understand culture, ethnicity, nation, identity, and antiracist politics, The Afro-Latin@ Reader presents a kaleidoscopic view of Black Latin@s in the United States. It addresses history, music, gender, class, and media representations in more than sixty selections, including scholarly essays, memoirs, newspaper and magazine articles, poetry, short stories, and interviews. While the selections cover centuries of Afro-Latin@ history, since the arrival of Spanish-speaking Africans in North America in the mid-sixteenth-century, most of them focus on the past fifty years. The central question of how Afro-Latin@s relate to and experience U.S. and Latin American racial ideologies is engaged throughout, in first-person accounts of growing up Afro-Latin@, a classic essay by a leader of the Young Lords, and analyses of U.S. census data on race and ethnicity, as well as in pieces on gender and sexuality, major-league baseball, and religion. The contributions that Afro-Latin@s have made to U.S. culture are highlighted in essays on the illustrious Afro-Puerto Rican bibliophile Arturo Alfonso Schomburg and music and dance genres from salsa to mambo, and from boogaloo to hip hop. Taken together, these and many more selections help to bring Afro-Latin@s in the United States into critical view." -- Publisher's description
Notes: "A John Hope Franklin Center Book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The earliest Africans in North America / Peter H. Wood; title: Black pioneers : the Spanish-speaking Afroamericans of the Southwest / Jack D. Forbes; title: Slave and free women of color in the Spanish ports of New Orleans, Mobile, and Pensacola / Virginia Meacham Gould; title: Afro-Cubans in Tampa / Susan D. Greenbaum; title: Excerpt from Pulling the muse from the drum / Adriìn Castro; title: Excerpt from Racial integrity : a plea for the establishment of a chair of Negro history in our schools and colleges / Arturo Alfonso Schomburg; title: The world of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg / Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof; title: Invoking Arturo Schomburg's legacy in Philadelphia / Evelyne Laurent-Perrault; title: Black Cuban, Black American / Evelio Grillo; title: A Puerto Rican in New York and other sketches / Jesús Colón; title: Melba Alvarado, El Club Cubano Inter-Americano, and the creation of Afro-Cubanidades in New York City / Nancy Raquel Mirabal; title: An uneven playing field : Afro-Latinos in major league baseball / Adrian Burgos Jr; title: Changing identities : an Afro-latino family portrait / Gabriel Haslip-Viera; title: Eso era tremendo! an Afro-cuban musician remembers / Graciela Pérez Gutiérrez; title: From "indianola" to "ño colá": the strange career of the Afro-Puerto Rican musician / Ruth Glasser; title: Excerpt from cu/bop / Louis Reyes Rivera; title: Bauzá-Gillespie-Latin/jazz : difference, modernity, and the black Caribbean / Jairo Moreno; title: Contesting that damned mambo : Arsenio Rodríguez and the people of El Barrio and the Bronx in the 1950s / David F. García; title: Boogaloo and Latin Soul / Juan Flores; title: Excerpt from the salsa of Bethesda Fountain / Tato Laviera; title: Hair conking; buy black / Carlos Cooks; title: Carlos A. Cooks : Dominican Garveyite in Harlem / Pedro R. Rivera; title: Down these mean streets / Piri Thomas; title: African things / Victor Hernández Cruz; title: Black notes and "you do something to me" / Sandra María Esteves; title: Before people called me a spic, they called me a nigger / Pablo "Yoruba" Guzmìn; title: Excerpt from Jíbaro, my pretty nigger / Felipe Luciano; title: The Yoruba Orisha tradition comes to New York City / Marta Moreno Vega; title: Reflections and lived experiences of Afro-Latin@ religiosity / Luis Barrios; title: Discovering myself : un testimonio / Sherezada "Chiqui" Vicioso; title: Excerpt from Dominicanish / Josefina Báez; title: The Black Puerto Rican woman in contemporary American society / Angela Jorge; title: Something Latino was up with us / Spring Redd; title: Excerpt from Poem for my Grifa-rican sistah, or broken ends broken promises; title: Mariposa (María Teresa Fernández); title: Latinegras : desired women; title: undesirable mothers, daughters, sisters, and wives / Marta I. Cruz-Janzen; title: Letter to a friend / Nilaja Sun; title: Uncovering mirrors : Afro-Latina lesbian subjects / Ana M. Lara; title: The black bellybutton of a bongo / Marianela Medrano; title: Notes on Eusebia Cosme and Juano Hernández / Miriam Jiménez Román; title: Desde el mero medio : race discrimination within the Latino community / Carlos Flores; title: Displaying identity : Dominicans in the Black mosaic of Washington, D.C. / Ginetta E. B. Candelario; title: Bringing the soul : afros, black empowerment, and Lucecita Benítez / Yeidy M. Rivero; title: Can BET make you Black? : remixing and reshaping Latin@s on Black Entertainment Television / Ejima Baker; title: The Afro-Latino connection : can this group be the bridge to a broadbased Black-Hispanic alliance? / Alan Hughes and Milca Esdaille; title: Ghettocentricity, blackness, and pan-latinidad / Raquel Z. Rivera; title: Chicano rap roots : Afro-Mexico and black-brown cultural exchange / Pancho McFarland; title: The rise and fall of reggaeton : from Daddy Yankee to Tego Calderón and beyond / Wayne Marshall; title: Do plátanos go wit' collard greens? / David Lamb; title: Divas don't yield / Sofia Quintero; title: An Afro-Latina's quest for inclusion / Yvette Modestin; title: Retracing migration : from Samaná to New York and back again / Ryan Mann-Hamilton; title: Negotiating among invisibilities : tales of Afro-latinidades in the United States / Vielka Cecilia Hoy; title: We are black too : experiences of a Honduran garifuna / Aida Lambert; title: Profile of an Afro-latina : Black, Mexican, both / Mar"a Rosario Jackson; title: Enrique Patterson : Black Cuban intellectual in Cuban Miami / Antonio Lyenpez; title: Reflections about race by a negrito acomplejao / Eduardo Bonilla-Silva; title: Divisible blackness : reflections on heterogeneity and racial identity / Silvio Torres-Saillant; title: Nigger-Reecan blues / Willie Perdomo; title: How race counts for Hispanic Americans / John R. Logan; title: Bleach in the rainbow : Latino ethnicity and preference for whiteness / William A. Darity Jr., Jason Dietrich, and Darrick Hamilton; title: Brown like me? / Ed Morales; title: Against the myth of racial harmony in Puerto Rico / Afro-Puerto Rican Testimonies Project; title: Mexican ways, African roots / Lisa Hoppenjans and Ted Richardson; title: Afro-Latin@s and the Latino workplace / Tanya Katerí Hernández; title: Racial politics in multiethnic America : Black and Latina/o identities and coalitions / Mark Sawyer; title: Afro-Latinism in United States society : a commentary / James Jennings.