La Habana, Cuba: Ministerio de Educación, Dirección de Cultura
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
477 p, Examines the musical traditions of the African population in Cuba, including rhythmic and melodic features, instrumentation, and vocal characteristics.
Attempts to understand what the presence of Black music means in the absence of Black people. Is this an expression of a global circulation of Afro-Caribbean cultural trends as symbols of belonging and difference among urban youngsters? Does it take us back to the history of Quintana Roo as a Caribbean region and the Black Atlantic? Is it a form of revision of Mexican national ethnic mixture and inclusion of other population groups? Adapted from the source document.
This study examines the identity categories of gender and race in the Cuban context of the first thirty years of the Revolution and focuses on black and mulata women, in which both categories converge. In this work I analyze the literary discourse of the Afro-Cuban female poets between the 1960s and 1980s and discern the role of self-representation that each of these poets constructs within the framework of "being black" or "mulata" woman. Also, since gender and race are redefined by the dominant power, this project analyzes the political hegemonic discourse of the period in relation to race and gender, and illuminates its role in preserving racial stereotypes as well as the patriarchal normatives of gender.
Santa Domingo, República Dominicana: Editora Manati
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Articles previously published in the newspaper Hoy of the Dominican Republic., 118 p., Contents: Afrodominicano por elección/negro por nacimiento --
Para ser dominicano hay que incluirlo todo : los pesimistas dominicanos y su Haití dialéctico --
Historias de hombres y mujeres libres/historias cimarronas --
¿Somos étnicamente taínos? --
Los africanos/negros en la fundación y desarrollo de Santo Domingo --
Los negros y la esclavitud en Santo Domingo.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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342 p, Examines how the low socioeconomic status of the black population in Cuba informs the representation of black characters in Cuban narrative fiction. From its very first example (Espejo de paciencia, 1608) until the most recent short fiction written after the 1959 Revolution, Cuban narrative fiction has played (and still plays) an important role in creating and maintaining the subaltern position of the black population in Cuba.
México, D.F.: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia : Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Centro de Investigaciones sobre América Latina y el Caribe : Centro de Estudios Mexicanos y Centroamericanos : Institut de recherche pour le développement
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Hopenhayn,Martín (Author), Bello,Alvaro (Author), and United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. Social Development Division (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Language:
Spanish
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
Santiago de Chile: CEPAL, División de Desarrollo Social
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
68 p., After centuries of exclusion and domination at the beginning of the new millennium indigenous peoples, Afro-Latin and Afro-Caribbean have the worst economic and social indicators and have little cultural recognition and access to decision makers. In Latin America and the Caribbean five countries account for nearly 90% of the regional indigenous population: Peru (27%), Mexico (26%), Guatemala (15%), Bolivia (12%), and Ecuador (8%). Afro-Latin and Afro-Caribbean region in the black and mestizo population reaches 150 million people, which means about 30% of the total population of the region. With regard to its geographical location, located especially in Brazil (50%) ;, Colombia (20%); and Venezuela (10%).
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
489 p, Examines the musical traditions of the African population in Cuba, including rhythmic and melodic features, instrumentation, and vocal characteristics.
La Habana Vieja, Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba: Casa Editora Abril
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
204 p., Comentado e ilustrado sobre los números y leyendas cubanas afrodescendientes. Sus entradas léxicas muentran deidades, mitos y leyendas, con sus significado, caracterización, así como la impronta africana, europea y cubanas en sus interrelaciones y transculturaciones.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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296 p, This book was originally published in 1959 in Cuba which includes the rituals of the Society Abakua narrated according to the author. The secret society fraternal, religious , cultural and mutual Abakua , created in 1836 and then built by African slaves for the purpose of dealing with the abuses of slavery. Because of their unquestionable contribution to the racial and cultural integration of the Cuban nation, the Abakua Society was eventually legally recognized.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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194 p., Includes Marie-José Nzengou-Tayo's "Prejuicios acerca de la independencia haitiana : viento negro, Bosque del Caiman de Carlos Esteban Deive," Silvia Valero's "De 'negros' y 'mulatos' en la literatura cubana contemporánea : Elíseo Altunaga, Marta Rojas y la re-escritura de la historia," and Felix Ayoh'Omidire's "La identidad frente al poder : la asimetría ritual de Yemayá en Africa y América Latina."
University of Puerto Rico (Río Piedras Campus). Centro de Investigaciones Históricas. (Author)
Format:
Book, Edited
Language:
Spanish
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Río Piedras, P.R.: Departamento de Historia, Centro de Investigaciónes Históricas, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Outgrowth of a seminar held at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, in June 2006., 50 p., Contents: Presentación / Sharon Meléndez Ortiz y Rafael Díaz Díaz -- Del machete al hechizo : formas de resistencia entre los esclavos y esclavas de origen africano y afro-caribeño durante el periodo colonial / Sharon Meléndez Ortiz -- Sometiéndose para ser libres : el caso de la libertad pedida por los negros de los palenques de la Sierra de María, Cartagena, 1691 / César Augusto Salcedo Chirinos -- Mujer negra : resistir para construir : Nueva Granada siglo XVIII / Yanelba Mota Maldonado -- Las juntas como resistencia al sistema esclavista, Cartagena de Indias, siglo XVI / Frank Cosme Arroyo -- La magia negra, resistencia y seducción / Rubén Lasanta -- Los caminos a la manumisión : ley de 21 de julio de 1821 / Damaris J. Marrero Villali.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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363 p, "A reprint of this extensive study of Afro-Cuban music examines the musical traditions of the African population in Cuba, including rhythmic and melodic features, instrumentation, and vocal characteristics. It must be studied in conjunction with Ortiz's Los bailes y el teatro de los negros en el folklore de Cuba (1993) and Los instrumentos de la música afrocubana (1995), both of which have been reprinted. The three works have also been reprinted in Spain (Madrid: Editorial Música Mundana Maqueda, 1997)"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.