Yo Soy Negro

Author : Tanya Maria Golash-Boza
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813059129

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Yo Soy Negro by Tanya Maria Golash-Boza Pdf

Yo Soy Negro is the first book in English--in fact, the first book in any language in more than two decades--to address what it means to be black in Peru. Based on extensive ethnographic work in the country and informed by more than eighty interviews with Peruvians of African descent, this groundbreaking study explains how ideas of race, color, and mestizaje in Peru differ greatly from those held in other Latin American nations. The conclusion that Tanya Maria Golash-Boza draws from her rigorous inquiry is that Peruvians of African descent give meaning to blackness without always referencing Africa, slavery, or black cultural forms. This represents a significant counterpoint to diaspora scholarship that points to the importance of slavery in defining blackness in Latin America as well as studies that place cultural and class differences at the center of racial discourses in the region.

Author : Tanya Maria Golash-Boza
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Blacks
ISBN : 0813048176

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Yo Soy Negro by Tanya Maria Golash-Boza Pdf

Author : Alberto Ríos
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780826320940

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Capirotada by Alberto Ríos Pdf

Vignettes of family, neighbors, friends, and secrets from his youth in the two Nogaleses--in Arizona and through the open gate into Mexico.

Author : Marc D. Perry
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0822359855

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Negro Soy Yo by Marc D. Perry Pdf

In Negro Soy Yo Marc D. Perry explores Cuba’s hip hop movement as a window into the racial complexities of the island’s ongoing transition from revolutionary socialism toward free-market capitalism. Centering on the music and lives of black-identified raperos (rappers), Perry examines the ways these young artists craft notions of black Cuban identity and racial citizenship, along with calls for racial justice, at the fraught confluence of growing Afro-Cuban marginalization and long held perceptions of Cuba as a non-racial nation. Situating hip hop within a long history of Cuban racial politics, Perry discusses the artistic and cultural exchanges between raperos and North American rappers and activists, and their relationships with older Afro-Cuban intellectuals and African American political exiles. He also examines critiques of Cuban patriarchy by female raperos, the competing rise of reggaetón, as well as state efforts to incorporate hip hop into its cultural institutions. At this pivotal moment of Cuban-U.S. relations, Perry's analysis illuminates the evolving dynamics of race, agency, and neoliberal transformation amid a Cuba in historic flux.

Author : Vera M. Kutzinski
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801466243

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The Worlds of Langston Hughes by Vera M. Kutzinski Pdf

The poet Langston Hughes was a tireless world traveler and a prolific translator, editor, and marketer. Translations of his own writings traveled even more widely than he did, earning him adulation throughout Europe, Asia, and especially the Americas. In The Worlds of Langston Hughes, Vera Kutzinski contends that, for writers who are part of the African diaspora, translation is more than just a literary practice: it is a fact of life and a way of thinking. Focusing on Hughes's autobiographies, translations of his poetry, his own translations, and the political lyrics that brought him to the attention of the infamous McCarthy Committee, she shows that translating and being translated—and often mistranslated—are as vital to Hughes's own poetics as they are to understanding the historical network of cultural relations known as literary modernism.As Kutzinski maps the trajectory of Hughes's writings across Europe and the Americas, we see the remarkable extent to which the translations of his poetry were in conversation with the work of other modernist writers. Kutzinski spotlights cities whose role as meeting places for modernists from all over the world has yet to be fully explored: Madrid, Havana, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, and of course Harlem. The result is a fresh look at Hughes, not as a solitary author who wrote in a single language, but as an international figure at the heart of a global intellectual and artistic formation.

Author : Yaw Agawu-Kakraba,Komla F. Aggor
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527522398

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African, Lusophone, and Afro-Hispanic Cultural Dialogue by Yaw Agawu-Kakraba,Komla F. Aggor Pdf

African, Lusophone, and Afro-Hispanic Cultural Dialogue is a collection of essays of broad historical and geographic scope that advances analytical perspectives regarding a highly transcultural and changing African continent enmeshed in the vestiges of slavery and colonialism and the complex dynamics of post-colonialism. Mostly grounded in literary studies, the essays discuss the interconnections between Africa and its Lusophone and Afro-Hispanic diaspora. Particular focus is given to how they relate to the politics of identity and assimilation, migration and displacement, the concept of “nation”, Eurocentrism and racial essentialisms, as well as Black aesthetics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-22
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781624421341

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Learn-A-Language Books Spanish, Grade 3 by Anonim Pdf

This new series uses a simple approach to help kids master the basics of the Spanish language including sentence structure, vocabulary, pronunciation, and verbs. Common items such as food, time, greetings, and places introduce students tobeginning sentence structure. Each 80-page book is packed with activities that will teach sight reading and translation skills. Activities include picture labeling, writing practice, matching exercises, and fill-in-the-blanks. These books provide different levels to accommodate every elementary student.

Author : John Patrick Leary
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813939179

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A Cultural History of Underdevelopment by John Patrick Leary Pdf

A Cultural History of Underdevelopment explores the changing place of Latin America in U.S. culture from the mid-nineteenth century to the recent U.S.-Cuba détente. In doing so, it uncovers the complex ways in which Americans have imagined the global geography of poverty and progress, as the hemispheric imperialism of the nineteenth century yielded to the Cold War discourse of "underdevelopment." John Patrick Leary examines representations of uneven development in Latin America across a variety of genres and media, from canonical fiction and poetry to cinema, photography, journalism, popular song, travel narratives, and development theory. For the United States, Latin America has figured variously as good neighbor and insurgent threat, as its possible future and a remnant of its past. By illuminating the conventional ways in which Americans have imagined their place in the hemisphere, the author shows how the popular image of the United States as a modern, exceptional nation has been produced by a century of encounters that travelers, writers, radicals, filmmakers, and others have had with Latin America. Drawing on authors such as James Weldon Johnson, Willa Cather, and Ernest Hemingway, Leary argues that Latin America has figured in U.S. culture not just as an exotic "other" but as the familiar reflection of the United States’ own regional, racial, class, and political inequalities.

Author : Tanya L. Saunders
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781477307724

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Cuban Underground Hip Hop by Tanya L. Saunders Pdf

In the wake of the 1959 Cuban Revolution, a key state ideology developed: racism was a systemic cultural issue that ceased to exist after the Revolution, and any racism that did persist was a result of contained cases of individual prejudice perpetuated by US influence. Even after the state officially pronounced the end of racism within its borders, social inequalities tied to racism, sexism, and homophobia endured, and, during the economic liberalization of the 1990s, widespread economic disparities began to reemerge. Cuban Underground Hip Hop focuses on a group of self-described antiracist, revolutionary youth who initiated a social movement (1996–2006) to educate and fight against these inequalities through the use of arts-based political activism intended to spur debate and enact social change. Their “revolution” was manifest in altering individual and collective consciousness by critiquing nearly all aspects of social and economic life tied to colonial legacies. Using over a decade of research and interviews with those directly involved, Tanya L. Saunders traces the history of the movement from its inception and the national and international debates that it spawned to the exodus of these activists/artists from Cuba and the creative vacuum they left behind. Shedding light on identity politics, race, sexuality, and gender in Cuba and the Americas, Cuban Underground Hip Hop is a valuable case study of a social movement that is a part of Cuba’s longer historical process of decolonization.

Author : Jack Loeffler,Katherine Loeffler
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Music
ISBN : 0826318843

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La Música de Los Viejitos by Jack Loeffler,Katherine Loeffler Pdf

Each song appears both in Spanish and English. For many, transcriptions of the musical notations are provided as well as graphic illustrations of dance technique.

Author : Kristina Wirtz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226119199

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Performing Afro-Cuba by Kristina Wirtz Pdf

Visitors to Cuba will notice that Afro-Cuban figures and references are everywhere: in popular music and folklore shows, paintings and dolls of Santería saints in airport shops, and even restaurants with plantation themes. In Performing Afro-Cuba, Kristina Wirtz examines how the animation of Cuba’s colonial past and African heritage through such figures and performances not only reflects but also shapes the Cuban experience of Blackness. She also investigates how this process operates at different spatial and temporal scales—from the immediate present to the imagined past, from the barrio to the socialist state. Wirtz analyzes a variety of performances and the ways they construct Cuban racial and historical imaginations. She offers a sophisticated view of performance as enacting diverse revolutionary ideals, religious notions, and racial identity politics, and she outlines how these concepts play out in the ongoing institutionalization of folklore as an official, even state-sponsored, category. Employing Bakhtin’s concept of “chronotopes”—the semiotic construction of space-time—she examines the roles of voice, temporality, embodiment, imagery, and memory in the racializing process. The result is a deftly balanced study that marries racial studies, performance studies, anthropology, and semiotics to explore the nature of race as a cultural sign, one that is always in process, always shifting.

Author : Ruth J. Silverstein
Publisher : Barrons Educational Services
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781438075235

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Spanish Now! Level 1: with Online Audio by Ruth J. Silverstein Pdf

This updated edition of the combination textbook and workbook is designed as an introduction to Spanish for classroom use. The emphasis is on oral proficiency--conversational speaking and listening comprehension--but the authors also present detailed instruction in the fundamentals of Spanish grammar, vocabulary, reading comprehension, and writing in Spanish. The book is filled with exercises and answers, true-to-life dialogues, illustrations of Hispanic art, and photos that capture the flavor of Spanish culture in Spain and Latin America. In this new edition, the vocabulary sections and readings have been updated to include the latest technology, while the cultural sections now include information about the Hispanic individuals currently making a splash on the world scene.

Author : Isar P Godreau
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252096860

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Scripts of Blackness by Isar P Godreau Pdf

The geopolitical influence of the United States informs the processes of racialization in Puerto Rico, including the construction of black places. In Scripts of Blackness, Isar P. Godreau explores how Puerto Rican national discourses about race--created to overcome U.S. colonial power--simultaneously privilege whiteness, typecast blackness, and silence charges of racism. Based on an ethnographic study of the barrio of San Antón in the city of Ponce, Scripts of Blackness examines institutional and local representations of blackness as developing from a power-laden process that is inherently selective and political, not neutral or natural. Godreau traces the presumed benevolence or triviality of slavery in Puerto Rico, the favoring of a Spanish colonial whiteness (under a hispanophile discourse), and the insistence on a harmonious race mixture as discourses that thrive on a presumed contrast with the United States that also characterize Puerto Rico as morally superior. In so doing, she outlines the debates, social hierarchies, and colonial discourses that inform the racialization of San Antón and its residents as black. Mining ethnographic materials and anthropological and historical research, Scripts of Blackness provides powerful insights into the critical political, economic, and historical context behind the strategic deployment of blackness, whiteness, and racial mixture.

Author : Ryan James Kernan
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810144422

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New World Maker by Ryan James Kernan Pdf

New World Maker reappraises Langston Hughes's political poetry, reading the writer's leftist works in the context of his practice of translation to reveal an important meditation on diaspora.

Author : Raymond Taras
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781474413435

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Nationhood, Migration and Global Politics by Raymond Taras Pdf

Uses philosophical thinking on delayed cinema, time and ethics to provide a new approach to reading film