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2. Cosa de Blancos: Cuban-American whiteness and the Afro-Cuban-occupied house
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Lopez,Antonio (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2010 summer
- Published:
- Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Latino Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 8(2) : 220-243
- Notes:
- Discusses representations of the 'Afro-Cuban-occupied house' in Cuban-American autobiographical narratives of a 1990s return to Cuba. A trope in which island Afro-Cubans inhabit houses once owned or lived in by white Cuban-Americans, the Afro-Cuban-occupied house appears repeatedly in Cuban-American literary and film texts during the period. The article argues that the trope, more than another example of 'literary Afro-Cubanness,' discloses Cuban-American whiteness and its constitutive element, privilege, thus inviting Cuban-American literary and cultural studies to engage in conversations along the lines of a critical Latino whiteness studies.
3. Hispanic Caribbean literature of migration : narratives of displacement
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Pérez Rosario,Vanessa (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- New York: Palgrave Macmillan
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 247 p., Explores the literary tradition of Caribbean Latino literature written in the U.S. beginning with José Martí and concluding with 2008 Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, Junot Díaz. The contributors consider the way that spatial migration in literature serves as a metaphor for gender, sexuality, racial, identity, linguistic, and national migrations. The essays in this collection reveal the multiple ways that writers of this tradition use their unique positioning as both insiders and outsides to critique U.S. hegemonic discourses while simultaneously interrogating national discourses in their home countries.
4. So far from Miami: Afro-Cuban Encounters with Mexicans in the US Southwest
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Dowling,Julie A. (Author) and Newby,C. Alison (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2010 summer
- Published:
- United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke UK
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Latino Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 8(2) : 176-194
- Notes:
- Journal Article, Examines the experiences of Afro-Cuban immigrants in non-traditional settlement sites in the Southwest. Drawing on 45 interviews with Afro-Cubans in Austin, Texas and Albuquerque, New Mexico, the authors explore how respondents position themselves relative to the local Mexican-origin population. Specifically focuses on the implications of 'Hispanic' identity in these cities as a category that is heavily tied to Mexican origin, 'brownness,' and the suspicion of illegality. As Afro-Cubans, respondents face a different racialization process than many non-black Latino immigrants, in that their blackness marks them as outside the bounds of regional constructions of Hispanic identity.