The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States

Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Editorial Note
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Introduction
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I. Historical Background before 1900
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Peter H. Wood: The Earliest Africans in North America
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Jack D. Forbes: Black Pioneers: The Spanish-Speaking Afro-Americans of the Southwest
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Virginia Meacham Gould: Slave and Free Women of Color in the Spanish Ports of New Orleans, Mobile, and Pensacola
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Susan D. Greenbaum: Afro-Cubans in Tampa
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Adrián Castro: Excerpt from "Pulling the Muse from the Drum"
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II. Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
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Arthur A. Schomburg: Excerpt from "Racial Integrity: A Plea for the Establishment of a Chair of Negro History in Our Schools and Colleges"
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Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof: The World of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
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Evelyne Laurent-Perrault: Invoking Arturo Schomburg's Legacy in Philadelphia
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III. Afro-Latin@s on the Color Line
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Evelio Grillo: Black Cuban, Black American
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Jesús Colón: A Puerto Rican in New and Other Sketches
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Nancy Raquel Mirabal: Melba Alvarado, El Club Cubano Inter-Americano, and the Creation of Afro-Cubanidades in New York City
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Adrian Burgos Jr.: An Uneven Playing Field: Afro-Latinos in Major League Basball
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Gabriel Haslip-Viera: Changing Identities: An Afro-Latin@ Family Portrait
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Graciela: ¡Eso era tremendo!: An Afro-Cuban Musician Remembers
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IV. Roots of Salsa: Afro-Latin@ Popular Music
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Ruth Glasser: From "Indianola" to “Ño Colá”: The Stranger Career of the Afro-Puerto Rican Musician
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Louis Reyes Rivera: Excerpt from "cu/bop"
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Jairo Moreno: Bauzá-Gillespie-Latin/Jazz: Difference, Modernity, and the Black Carribbean
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David F. García: Contesting that Damned Mambo: Arsenio Rodríguez and the People of El Barrio and the Bronx in the 1950s......Page 204
Juan Flores: Boogaloo and Latin Soul
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Tato Laviera: Excerpt from "the salsa of bethesda fountain"
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V. Black Latin@ Sixties
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Carlos Cooks: Hair Conking; Buy Black
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Pedro R. Rivera: Carlos A. Cooks: Dominican Garveyite in Harlem
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Piri Thomas: Down These Mean Streets
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Victor Hernández Cruz: African Things
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Sandra María Esteves: Black Notes and "You Do Something to Me"
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Pablo “ Yoruba” Guzmán: Before People Called Me a Spic, They Called me a Nigger
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Felipe Luciano: Excerpt from "Jíbaro, My Pretty Nigger"......Page 261
Marta Moreno Vega: The Yoruba Orisha Tradition Comes to New York City
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Luis Barrios: Reflections and Lived Experiences of Afro-Latin@ Religiosity
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Sherezada "Chiqui" Vicioso: Discovering Myself: Un Testimonio
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Josefina Báez: Excerpt from "Dominicanish"
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VI. Afro-Latinas
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Angela Jorge: The Black Puerto Rican Woman in Contemporary American Society
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Spring Redd: Something Latino Was Up with Us
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Mariposa (María Teresa Fernández): Excerpt from "Poem for My Grifa-Rican Sistah, or Broken Ends Broken Promises"
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Marta I. Cruz-Janzen: Latinegras: Desired Women-Undesirable Mothers, Daughterse, Sisters, and Wives
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Nilaja Sun: Letter to a Friend
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Ana M. Lara: Uncovering Mirrors: Afro-Latina Lesbian Subjects
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Marianela Medrano: The Black Bellybutton of a Bongo
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VII. Public Images and (Mis) Representations......Page 334
Miriam Jiménez Román: Notes on Eusebia Cosme and Juano Hernández......Page 336
Carlos Flores: Desde el Mero Medio: Race Discrimination with the Latin@ Community
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Ginetta E. B. Candelario: Displaying Identity: Dominicans in the Black Mosaic of Washington, D.C.
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Yeidy M. Rivero: Bringing the Soul: Afros, Black Empowerment, and Lucecita Benítez......Page 360
Ejima Baker: Can Bet: Make You Black? Remixing and Reshaping Latin@s on Black Entertainment Television......Page 375
Alan Hughes and Milca Esdaille: The Afro-Latino Connection: Can this group be the bridge to a broadbased Black-Hispanic alliance?......Page 381
VIII. Afro-Latin@s in the Hip Hop Zone
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Raquel Z. Rivera: Ghettocentricity, Blackness, and Pan-Latinidad
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Pancho McFarland: Chicano Rap Roots: Afro-Mexico and Black-Brown Cultural Exchange
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Wayne Marshall: The Rise and Fall of Reggaeton: From Daddy Yankee to Tego Calderón and Beyond
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David Lamb: Do Plátanos Go wit’ Collard Greens?......Page 421
Sofia Quintero: Dvias Don't Yield
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IX. Living Afro-Latinidades
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Yvette Modestin: An Afro-Latina's Quest for Inclusion
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Ryan Mann-Hamilton: Retracing Migration: From Samaná to New York and Back Again
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Vielka Cecilia Hoy: Negotiating among Invisibilities: Tales of Afro-Latinidades in the United States
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Aida Lambert: We Are Black Too: Experiences of a Honduran Garifuna
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María Rosario Jackson: Profile of an Afro-Latina: Black, Mexican, Both
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Antonio López: Enrique Patterson: Black Cuban Intellectual in Cuban Miami
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Eduardo Bonilla-Silva: Reflections about Race by a Negrito Acomplejao
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Silvio Torres-Saillant: Divisible Blackness: Reflections on Hetergeneity and Racial Identity
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Willie Perdomo: Nigger-Reecan Blues
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X. Afro-Latin@s: Present and Future Tenses
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John R. Logan: How Race Counts for Hispanic Americans
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William A. Darity Jr., Jason Dietrich, and Darrick Hamilton: Bleach in the Rainbow: Latino Ethnicity and Preference for Whiteness
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Ed Morales: Brown Like Me?
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Afro-Puerto Rican Testimonies: An Oral History Project in Western Puerto Rico: Against the Myth of Racial Harmony in Puerto Rico
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Lisa Hoppenjans and Ted Richardson: Mexican Ways, African Roots
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Tanya Katerí Hernández: Afro-Latin@s and the Latin@ Workplace
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Mark Sawyer: Racial Politics in Multiethnic America: Black and Latin@ Identities and Coalitions
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James Jennings: Afro-Latinism in United States Society: A Commentary
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Sources and Permissions
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Contributors
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Index
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