"When Fidel Castro came to New York in 1960 for the 18th General Assembly at the United Nations, he was flushed with his victory over the dictator Fulgencio Batista, and he had signed the first land-reform bill expropriating land from foreign monopolies to redistribute among landless peasants. That, of course, was a challenge to the United Fruit Company and the United States, and for it he was painted red. When he arrived in New York, he was insulted at the Shelbourne Hotel in midtown, and so he took all of his group and went up to Harlem, to the Hotel Theresa." (author)
Sudarkasa,Niara (Author) and Nwachuku,Levi A. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1996
Published:
Lincoln University, PA: Lincoln University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
288 p, Includes Maghan Keita's "Linking precolonial Africa and Pre-Columbian America: the implications and their impact on Old World/New World scholarship," Janice- Marie McDonaldand's "An afrocentric approach to Afro-Latino literature" and Richard Allsopp's "African systems in Caribbean communication."
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
176 p, "Based on examination of housing patterns in San Juan and demographic data from four of its 19th-century barrios, work provides a much-needed exploration of racial prejudice in Puerto Rico. Challenges commonplace denial of racial discrimination up to the present by showing that free people of color had limited economic, social, and political opportunities to advance their status"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
