Tillis explores the socio-political poetics of Blas Jiménez in the context of the negritude aesthetic in the Spanish-speaking world. The selected poems of Jiménez attest to the continuation of negritude ideology of Afrocentric thematic poetry in the Carribean and showed that the poet's social criticism is linked to an ideology of white supremacy resulting from colonialism and slavery.;
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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240 p, It's the introduction that never became Afrocubana Culture, the work in four volumes that its author, Jorge Castellanos, wrote in collaboration with her daughter Isabel and Universal editions that given the stamp from 1988 to 1994.
