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2. Azucar negra: (Re)envisioning race, representation, and resistance in the afrofeminista imaginary
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Guyton Acosta,Kiley Jeanelle (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- New Mexico: The University of New Mexico
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 321 p., Locates contemporary articulations of afrofeminismo in manifold modes of cultural production including literature, music, visual displays of the body, and digital media. Examines the development of afrofeminismo in relation to colonial sexual violence in sugar-based economies to explain how colonial dynamics inflect ideologies of blanqueamiento/embranquecimento (racial whitening) and pseudo-scientific racial determinism. In this context, the author addresses representations of the mujer negra (black woman) and the mulata (mulatto woman) in Caribbean and Brazilian cultural discourse.
3. Beginning a new Cuban dream: An interview with Carlos Varela
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Cumaná,María Caridad, (Author) and Dubinsky,Karen, (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Fall; Fall-winter, 2013
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Latin American music review/Revista de música latinoamericana
- Journal Title Details:
- 34(2) : 196-222
- Notes:
- Carlos Varela is one of the best-known singer-songwriters to emerge from the Cuban nueva trova movement: heir to the musical traditions forged by Silvio Rodríguez and Pablo Milanés. Parochially, if accurately, known in North America as “Cuba’s Bob Dylan,” he has produced eight CDs since he began recording in 1988 and has toured Europe, the United Kingdom, Latin America, the Caribbean, and North America. In Cuba he is known as the voice of the generation that came of age during the Special Period of the 1990s, those raised with the promise and seeming collapse of the Cuban Revolution, for whom his songs have become generational anthems. In this interview, Varela discusses the meaning his music has for Cubans in the diaspora and on the island, the benefits and liabilities of creating music in today’s Cuba, censorship, history, the current Cuban hip-hop scene, and the ongoing significance of music as a political language for his own and other generations of Cubans. He also shares some reflections about his own career and his song-writing process since the 1980s., unedited non–English abstract received by RILM] Carlos Varela es uno de los cantautores más famosos surgido del movimiento cubano de la nueva trova, y heredero de la tradición musical de Silvio Rodríguez y Pablo Milanés. Celebrado como el “Bob Dylan cubano”, ha producido ocho discos desde que comenzó a grabar en 1988, y ha dado giras por Europa, el Reino Unido, América Latina, el Caribe y América del Norte. En Cuba, Varela es conocido como la voz de la generación que se formó durante el Período Especial de los años noventa, los que crecieron con la promesa y, a la vez, la desilusión de la Revolución Cubana, y para quienes sus canciones se convirtieron en himnos generacionales. En esta entrevista, habla sobre el significado de sus canciones para los cubanos dentro y fuera de la isla, sobre los beneficios y las dificultades de la creación musical en la Cuba de hoy, sobre la censura, la historia, el escenario actual del hip-hop cubano, y el constante significado de la música como lenguaje político, tanto para su generación como para las otras generaciones de cubanos. También, Varela comparte algunas reflexiones sobre su carrera y el proceso de creación de sus canciones desde los años ochenta.
4. Beyond the color curtain: Empire and Resistance from the Tricontinental to the Global South
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Mahler,Anne Garland (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- Atlanta, GA: Emory University
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 203 p., Argues for grounding the concept of global subaltern resistance in the legacy of the 1966 Tricontinental in which delegates from the liberation movements of 82 nations came together in Havana, Cuba to form an alliance against imperialism. This alliance, called the Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America (OSPAAAL) quickly became the driving force of international political radicalism and the primary engine of its cultural production. Because the Tricontinental represents the extension into the Americas of the anti-imperialist union of Afro-Asian nations begun at the 1955 Bandung Conference, it points to a moment in which a diverse range of radicalist writers and artists in the Americas began interacting with its discourse. By tracing the circulation of the Tricontinental's ideology in its cultural production and in related texts from Third Cinema, Cuban Revolutionary film, the Nuyorican Movement, and writings by Young Lords and Black Power activists, Beyond the Color Curtain outlines how tricontinentalists laid the groundwork for a theory of power and resistance that is resurfacing in the contemporary notion of the Global South.
5. Book Review: Women in Cuba: The Making of a Revolution Within the Revolution
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Chandler,Susan (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2013-05
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Affilia: Journal of Women & Social Work
- Journal Title Details:
- 28(2) : 213-215
- Notes:
- Reviews the book ","
6. Book depicts Black Cuban experience in America
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Carrillo,Karen Juanita (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Jul 18-Jul 24, 2013
- Published:
- New York, NY
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- New York Amsterdam News
- Journal Title Details:
- 29 : 20
- Notes:
- "With the exception of the local corner bar, which they could patronize, Black Cubans did not share recreational activities with white Cubans. They were not hired as clerks or even as menial help in the restaurants. There were no Black Cuban entrepreneurs, except for a tailor, a barber and a very successful dry-cleaning establishment," Grillo says in the book. "In the main, Black Cubans and white Cubans lived apart from one another in Ybor City." While slavery may have been different in Cuba, Afro-Cubans wound up with a social status not much different from that of African Americans. Even Blacks who were financially successful had to deny their ethnicity in order to be accepted within Cuba's white society: "In Cuba, affluent Black Cubans moved within the society of the affluent. 'Es Negro, pero es Negro blanco' ['He is a Black man, but he is a white Black man'] was an expression I heard often."
7. Cuba Democracy Assistance: USAID's Program Is Improved, but State Could Better Monitor Its Implementing Partners
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Gootnick,David (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- Jan 2013
- Published:
- Washington DC: United States Government Accountability Office
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- United States Government Accountability Office
- Notes:
- 53 p., Since 1996, Congress has appropriated 205 million dollars to the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Department of State (State) to support democracy assistance for Cuba. Because of Cuban government restrictions, conditions in Cuba pose security risks to the implementing partners -- primarily nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) -- and subpartners that provide US assistance. GAO (1) identified current assistance, implementing partners, subpartners, and beneficiaries; (2) reviewed USAID's and State's efforts to implement the program in accordance with US laws and regulations and to address program risks; and (3) examined USAID's and State's monitoring of the use of program funds. Tables, Figures, Appendixes.
8. Cuba's Changing Attitudes
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Randall,Margaret (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2013 Mar
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Women's Review of Books
- Journal Title Details:
- 30(2) : 25-27
9. Cuba: Race Matters
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Binns,Leory A. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2013-08
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Race, Gender & Class
- Journal Title Details:
- 20(3) : 333-345
- Notes:
- The Cuban journey on race relations denotes an adventure driven by ideology. A doctrine of equals and the need for consensus building towards national unity called for the reversal of disenfranchisement commonly practiced prior to the revolution. Public policy has affirmed a commitment to social integration of people of color yet the residue of bigotry still inflames the Cuban populace and stymies potential maturity among its people.
10. Cuba: The Next Revolution
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Diaz,Maria Elena (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Mar 2013
- Published:
- Philadelphia, PA: Routledge/Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 8(1) : 83-87
- Notes:
- A critical analysis of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s PBS documentary film series Black in Latin America. Explores how racial polemics are explicitly entangled with the politics of Revolution in Cuba. Adapted from the source document.