{"product_id":"afrocubanas-history-thought-and-cultural-practices-9781538148228","title":"Afrocubanas: History, Thought, and Cultural","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in Spanish and edited by Cuban historian Daisy Rubiera Castillo and playwright and theater critic Inés María Martiatu Terry, this ground-breaking edited collection is the first work of its kind. It places the experiences of black and mulata women at the center of Cuban history. Including essays from a mix of well-known and newly published Cuban authors, the volume examines the lives of Afrocubanas from the late nineteenth century to the present. The volume’s contributors collect and interrogate the voices of black Cuban women and the political, cultural, social, and ideological contributions they have made to the history of their nation. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the unique qualities of Afrocubanas is that the text is the product of a grassroots community working group in Havana. A number of antiracist organizations emerged to fight racial inequality in light of Cuba’s new economic challenges after the fall of its chief trading partner, the Soviet Union in 1991. But, the Afrocubanas Project (founded in the mid-2000s) is one of the few groups that challenges racism and sexism together. The members of the Afrocubanas Project hail from a variety of professions, ages, and sexual orientations. They share a collective interest in challenging negative stereotypes about black women. This volume merges their activism and scholarship to offer a counter discourse to existing narratives about black women in Cuba while also creating and disseminating new knowledge about Afrocubanas. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is no other published work in English devoted to analyzing the political and intellectual dimensions of black Cuban women’s thought across the island’s history. This text is essential reading for scholars and students of Africana Studies, Afro-Latin American Studies, Caribbean history, and courses focusing on black women in the Atlantic region.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy opening a much needed window into the lives, voices, and contributions of barely known Afro-Cuban female intellectuals and activists, this compilation makes a singular contribution to Afro-Cuban and to Afro-Latin American Studies. It is precisely from and through authors like those included here that we will be able to rethink the history of Latin America. -- Alejandro de la Fuente, Afro-Latin American Research Institute, Harvard University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfrocubanas is an important historical document. It brings together many of Cuba’s contemporary Black feminist scholars to highlight the history and breadth of Black feminist thought in Cuba. This translation helps to make visible, and accessible, the groundbreaking work of Cuban Black feminist scholars. \u003c\/p\u003e -- Tanya Saunders, Associate Professor of Latin American Studies, University of Florida\u003cbr\u003ePreviously published (in 2011) by the prestigious Cuban publisher Editorial Ciencias Sociales, Afrocubanas: History Thought, and Cultural Practices is a beautiful and necessary collection of texts on Afro-Cuban female history and experiences that have been frequently overlooked in most works on Cuban Studies. As the first published book devoted to giving voice to Afro-Cuban women, it deserves to be published in English. -- Odette Casamayor-Cisneros, Associate Professor of Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania\u003cbr\u003eThis English-language release of Afrocubanas is nothing less than thrilling. The granular analysis of archival sources by Cuba’s most innovative historians, the compilation of Afro-Cuban women’s writing throughout the twentieth century, and cogent discussions of black women’s lives in 21\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e-century Cuba combine to make this book essential reading for anyone interested in race and gender in Latin America. -- Anasa Hicks, Assistant Professor of Caribbean History, Florida State University\u003cbr\u003eAfrocubanas provides sources that are often inaccessible to students or ignored by scholars and teachers – those authored by black women from the non-English-speaking Global South. Those who teach on the topics of Latin America and the Caribbean; slavery and race; or feminism and gender should assign this book, for the voices in Afrocubanas have the potential to revolutionize your course. -- Kelly Urban, Assistant Professor of History, University of South Alabama\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart One: History\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLawsuits by Slave Women in Nineteenth Century Cuba \/ Digna Castañeda Fuertes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReconstructing Ex-slave Belén Álvarez’s Story \/ Oilda Hevia Lanier\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWomen of Color in Santiaguera Colonial Society, A Commentary \/ María Cristina Hierrezuelo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart Two: Thought\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWomen of Minerva \/ María del Carmen Barcia Zequeira\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGratitude: To My Friends and Colleagues of the Journal Minerva \/ Úrsula Coimbra de Valverde \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlack Voices in Favor of the Independent Party of Color \/ Carmen Piedra\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur Ethnic Values \/ Consuelo Serra \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat We Are \/ Inocencía Silveira\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Black Cuban Woman \/ Gerardo del Valle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlack Cuban Women and Culture \/ Catalina Pozo Gato\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlack Intelligence \/ Arabella Òña\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWomen in Santeria or Regla Ocha: Gender, Myths and Reality \/ Daisy Rubiera Castillo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGender and Raciality: An Obligatory Reflection in Contemporary Cuba \/ Yulexis Almeida Junco\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn Afro-Cuban Women Stereotypes: Construction and Deconstruction of Myths \/ María Ileana Faguaga Iglesias\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProposing an Inclusive and Non-sexist Gaze: Mulata Women, A Profane Invention? \/ Onelia Chaveco Chaveco\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHairs \/ Carmen González Chacón\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePassing for a White Woman \/ Sandra del Valle Casals \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Revolution Made Blacks into People \/ Yusimí Rodríguez López\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHuman Race? 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It Had to Be! \/ Yohmna Depestre Corcho\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Room of Our Own for Black Cuban Women \/ Yesenia Selier Crespo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart Three: Cultural Practices\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriki for Elder Black Women of the Past \/ Georgina Herrera Cárdenas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Black Female Imaginary in Cuba \/ Aymée Rivera Pérez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOppositional Binaries in Nancy Morejón’s Octubre Imprescindible and Cuadernos de Granada \/ Lourdes Martínez Echazábal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Memory of Excilia \/ Coralia de Mercedes Hernández Herrera\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Thick Skin of Teresa Cárdenas \/ Leonardo Estupiñán Zaldívar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEl Negrito, The Little Black Man and the Mulata in the Vortex of Nationality \/ Inés María Martiatu Terry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePopular Theater and Collective Resistance \/ Fátima de la Caridad Patterson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCatalina Berroa, The Audacious Trinitarian (First Female Composer of “Cultured” Music in the Nineteenth Century) \/ Isabel González Sauto\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Marathon Exists for Both Men and Women \/ Edelvis López\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaking Dreams Come True Is Not the Same as Dreaming \/ María Elena Mendiola\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Contributions of Sara Gómez \/ Sandra Álvarez Ramírez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBelkis Ayón Manso, Between Heterogeneous Sensibilities \/ Lázara Menéndez Vásquez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlack Women in Sports \/ Irene Esther Ruiz Narváez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Lexical Semantic Analysis on the Discourse of Women in Cuban Rap \/ Yanelys Abreu Babi and Anette Jiménez Marata","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041189167447,"sku":"9781538148228","price":28.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781538148228.jpg?v=1750949274","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/afrocubanas-history-thought-and-cultural-practices-9781538148228","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}