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    1. 'It's the sugar, the honey that you have': learning to be natural through rumba in Cuba

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Hensley,Shannon (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2011-04
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography
    Journal Title Details:
    18(2) : 195-215
    Notes:
    Considers how dance, rhythm and the body become forces of social differentiation. In Cuba, many Afro-Cuban cultural practices, such as rumba, have been subject to social and spatial exclusion. In this context, sites such as the home, the street and the family emerge as highly significant for the learning and performance of Afro-Cuban music and dance.

    2. Constructing Afro-Cuban Womanhood: Race, Gender, and Citizenship in Republican-Era Cuba, 1902--1958

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Brunson,Takkara Keosha (Author)
    Format:
    Dissertation/Thesis
    Publication Date:
    2011
    Published:
    Texas: The University of Texas at Austin
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
    Notes:
    344 p., Explores continuities and transformations in the construction of Afro-Cuban womanhood in Cuba between 1902 and 1958. A dynamic and evolving process, the construction of Afro-Cuban womanhood encompassed the formal and informal practices that multiple individuals--from lawmakers and professionals to intellectuals and activists to workers and their families--established and challenged through public debates and personal interactions in order to negotiate evolving systems of power. The dissertation argues that Afro-Cuban women were integral to the formation of a modern Cuban identity. Studies of pre-revolutionary Cuba dichotomize race and gender in their analyses of citizenship and national identity formation. As such, they devote insufficient attention to the role of Afro-Cuban women in engendering social transformations.