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Informationen zum Autor Miriam Jiménez Román is a visiting scholar in the Africana Studies Program at New York University and Executive Director of afrolatin@ forum, a research and resource center focusing on Black Latin@s in the United States.Juan Flores is Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. His most recent works include The Diaspora Strikes Back: Caribeño Tales of Learning and Turning, From Bomba To Hip-Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity, and the English translation of Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá’s book Cortijo’s Wake, also published by Duke University Press. Klappentext An edited volume on the history and culture of Afro-Latino/as in the US Zusammenfassung A kaleidoscopic view of Black Latin@s in the United States! addressing history! music! gender! class! and media representations in more than sixty selections! including essays! memoirs! journalism! poetry! and interviews. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments xiii Editorial Note xv Introduction 1 I. Historical Background before 1900 The Earliest Africans in North America / Peter H. Wood 19 Black Pioneers: The Spanish-Speaking Afroamericans of the Southwest / Jack D. Forbes 27 Slave and Free Women of Color in the Spanish Ports of New Orleans, Mobile, and Pensacola / Virginia Meacham Gould 38 Afro-Cubans in Tampa / Susan D. Greenbaum 51 Excerpt from Pulling the Muse from the Drum / Adrian Castro 62 II. Arturo Alfonso Schomburg Excerpt from Racial Integrity: A Plea for the Establishment of a Chair of Negro History in Our Schools and Colleges / Arturo Alfonso Schomburg 67 The World of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg / Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof 70 Invoking Arturo Schomburg's Legacy in Philadelphia / Evelyne Laurent-Perrault 92 III. Afro-Latin@s on the Color Line Black Cuban, Black American / Evelio Grillo 99 A Puerto Rican in New York and Other Sketches / Jesus Colon 113 Melba Alvarado, El Club Cubano Inter-Americano, and the Creation of Afro-Cubanidades in New York City / Nancy Raquel Mirabel 120 An Uneven Playing Field: Afro-Latinos in Major League Baseball / Adrian Burgos Jr. 127 Changing Identities: An Afro-Latino Family Portrait / Gabriel Haslip-Viera 142 Eso era tremendo!: An Afro-Cuban Musician Remembers / Graciela Perez Gutierrez 150 IV. Roots of Salsa: Afro-Latin@ Popular Music From "Indianola" to "No Colá": The Strange Career of the Afro-Puerto Rican Musician / Ruth Glasser 157 Excerpt from cu/bop / Louis Reyes Rivera 176 Bauzá–Gillespie–Latin/JAzz: Difference, Modernity, and the Black Caribbean / Jairo Moreno 177 Contesting that Damned Mambo: Arsenio Rodriguez and the People of El Barrio and the Bronx in the 1950s / David F. Garcia 187 Boogaloo and Latin Soul / Juan Flores 199 Excerpt from the salsa of bethesda fountain / Tato Laviera 207 V. Black Latin@ Sixties Hair Conking: Buy Black / Carlos Cooks 211 Carlos A. Cooks: Dominican Garveyite in Harlem / Pedro R. Rivera 215 Down These Mean Streets / Piri Thomas 219 African Things / Victor Hernandez Cruz 232 Black Notes and "You Do Something to Me" / Sandra Maria Esteves 233 Before People Called Me a Spic, They Called Me a Nigger / Pablo "Yoruba" Guzman 235 Excerpt from Jíbaro, My Pretty Nigger / Felipe Luciano 244 The Yoruba Orisha Tradition Comes to New York City / Marta Moreno Vega 245 Reflections and Lived Experiences of Afro-Latin@ Religiosity / Luis Barrios 252 Discovering Myself / Un Testimonio / Josefina Baez 266 VI. Afro-Latinas The Black Puerto Rican Woman in Contemporary American Society / Angela Jorge 269 Something Latino Was Up with Us / Spring Redd 276 Excerpt from Poem for My Grifa-Rican Sistah, or Broken Ends Broken Promises / Mariposa (María Teresa Fernandez) 280 Latinegras: Desired Women—...
