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2. A Single Shade of 'Negro': Henry Louis Gates' Depictions of Blackness in the Dominican Republic
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Roth,Wendy D. (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) : 92-96
- Notes:
- A critical analysis of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s PBS documentary film series Black in Latin America. The author discusses the conceptualization of blackness in the Dominican Republic.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. More than 'A Hidden Race': The Complexities of Blackness in Mexico and Peru
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Sue,Christina A. (Author) and Golash-Boza,Tanya (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) : 76-82
- Notes:
- A critical analysis of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s PBS documentary film series Black in Latin America. The authors examine Gates' presentation of blackness in Mexico and Peru. Their critique of the film focuses on the themes of national ideology, racial categorization, and portrayals of the 'black' experience.
6. Orpheus in Babylon: Music, myth and realism in the films of Rio de Janeiro
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Treece,David, (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 01/01; 2012
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Collected Work: Screening songs in Hispanic and Lusophone cinema.Pages: 298-314.(AN: 2012-16999).
- Notes:
- Considers the role of music, both symbolic and material, in screen representations of Rio de Janeiro since the 1950s. The music of Rio's streets and hillsides has played more than a mere supporting role in the cinematic representations of the city across the last half-century. Embracing samba, bossa nova, MPB, soul, funk, funk carioca (a local variant of Miami bass), and rap, the heterogeneous voices of Rio's soundscape have arguably shaped audiences' understanding and imagination of its cultural geography and social dynamic as much as the films' visual narratives and dramas. The author discusses some key examples spanning the last 50 years, from Nelson Pereira dos Santos's Rio, Zona Norte (Rio, North Zone, 1957) and Marcel Camus's Orfeu negro (Black Orpheus, 1959), to Carlos Diegues's remake Orfeu (Orpheus, 1999) and Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund's Cidade de Deus (City of God, 2002). Taking as his point of departure the mythical narrative of Orpheus, he explores the representation of popular music as a force for social redemption, regeneration, and reconciliation. He interrogates the interplay of different musical styles and idioms, such as samba and bossa nova, on screen, and challenges one of the common assumptions about shifts in style and sound: the idea that the harder soundtracks of most recent films (centering on rap and funk carioca) correspond to a necessarily more realistic and truthful representation of the city, as opposed to the allegedly sentimentalized depictions associated with the bossa nova-influenced scores of Orfeu negro and Rio, Zona Norte. In cinematic representations of the city, Rio's musical identity continues to be performed in a dialogue between tradition and innovation, the local and the diasporic, with no song style being more real than any other.