Between race and empire : African-Americans and Cubans before the Cuban Revolution / edited by Lisa Brock and Digna Castañeda Fuertes.
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.
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Philadelphia, PA :
Temple University Press,
[1998]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : between race and empire / Lisa Brock
- Minerva : a magazine for women (and men) of color / Carmen Montejo Arrechea
- Telling silences and making community : Afro-Cubans and African-Americans in Ybor City and Tampa, 1899-1915 / Nancy Raquel Mirabal
- African-American press and United States involvement in Cuba, 1902-1912 / David J. Hellwig
- Encounters in the African Atlantic world : the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Cuba / Jualynne E. Dodson
- Cuba's roaring twenties : race consciousness and the column "Ideales de una Raza" / Rosalie Schwartz
- Marcus Garvey in Cuba : Urrutia, Cubans, and black nationalism / Tomás Fernández Robaina
- Nicolás Guillén and Langston Hughes : convergences and divergences / Keith Ellis
- Not just black : African-Americans, Cubans, and baseball / Lisa Brock and Bijan Bayne
- Cuban social poetry and the struggle against two racisms / Carmen Gómez García
- CuBop! : Afro-Cuban music and mid-twentieth-century American culture / Geoffrey Jacques
- African-American press greets the Cuban Revolution / Van Gosse.