Forging diaspora : Afro-Cubans and African Americans in a world of empire and Jim Crow
- Responsibility
- Frank Andre Guridy.
- Digital
- data file.
- Imprint
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2010.
- Physical description
- 1 online resource (xiv, 270 pages) : illustrations.
- Series
- Envisioning Cuba.
More options
Description
Creators/Contributors
- Author/Creator
- Guridy, Frank Andre.
Contents/Summary
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
-
- Introduction : making diaspora in the shadow of empire and Jim Crow
- Forging diaspora in the midst of empire : the Tuskegee-Cuba connection
- Un dios, un fin, un destino : enacting diaspora in the Garvey movement
- Blues and son from Harlem to Havana
- Destination without humiliation : Black travel within the routes of discrimination.
- Summary
-
Documenting diaspora among neighbors Cuba's geographic proximity to the United States and its centrality to U.S. imperial designs following the War of 1898 led to the creation of a unique relationship between Afro-descended populations in the two countries. In "Forging Diaspora", Frank Andre Guridy shows that the cross-national relationships nurtured by Afro-Cubans and black Americans helped to shape the political strategies of both groups as they attempted to overcome a shared history of oppression and enslavement. Drawing on archival sources in both countries, Guridy traces four encounters between Afro-Cubans and African Americans. These hidden histories of cultural interaction - of Cuban students attending Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute, the rise of Garveyism, the Havana-Harlem cultural connection during the Harlem Renaissance and Afro-Cubanism movement, and the creation of black travel networks during the Good Neighbor and early Cold War eras - illustrate the significance of cross-national linkages to the ways both Afro-descended populations negotiated the entangled processes of U.S. imperialism and racial discrimination. As a result of these relationships, argues Guridy, Afro-descended people in Cuba and the United States came to identify themselves as part of a transcultural African diaspora.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
Subjects
- Subject
- African Americans > Relations with Cubans > History > 20th century.
- African Americans > Race identity > History > 20th century.
- Blacks > Race identity > Cuba > History > 20th century.
- African Americans > Social conditions > 20th century.
- Blacks > Cuba > Social conditions > 20th century.
- African diaspora.
- United States > Race relations.
- Cuba > Race relations.
- SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
- HISTORY > Caribbean & West Indies > Cuba.
- African Americans > Race identity.
- African Americans > Relations with Cubans.
- African Americans > Social conditions.
- African diaspora.
- Blacks > Race identity.
- Blacks > Social conditions.
- Race relations.
- Cuba.
- United States.
- Rassendiskriminierung
- Ethnische Identität
- Politische Identität
- Schwarze
- Afrikaner
- Kuba
- USA
Bibliographic information
- Publication date
- 2010
- Series
- Envisioning Cuba
- ISBN
- 9780807895979 (electronic bk.)
- 0807895970 (electronic bk.)
- 9781469604060 (electronic bk.)
- 146960406X (electronic bk.)
- 9780807833612
- 0807833614
- 9780807871034
- 0807871036
