{"id":24411,"date":"2012-07-18T04:15:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T04:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=24411"},"modified":"2016-03-21T00:42:13","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T00:42:13","slug":"unbecoming-blackness-the-diaspora-cultures-of-afro-cuban-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=24411","title":{"rendered":"Unbecoming Blackness: The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/nyupress.org\/books\/book-details.aspx?bookId=8432\" target=\"_blank\">Unbecoming Blackness: The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nyupress.org\" target=\"_blank\">New York University Press<\/a><br \/>\nNovember 2012<br \/>\n272 pages<br \/>\n10 halftones<br \/>\nCloth ISBN: 9780814765463<br \/>\nPaper ISBN: 9780814765470<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/departments.columbian.gwu.edu\/english\/people\/131\" target=\"_blank\">Antonio L\u00f3pez<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of English<br \/>\n<em>George Washington University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nyupress.org\/books\/book-details.aspx?bookId=8432\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nyuconnexus.seisan.com\/uploads\/products\/9780814765463\/9780814765463_Full.jpeg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In <em>Unbecoming Blackness<\/em>, Antonio L\u00f3pez uncovers an important, otherwise unrecognized century-long archive of literature and performance that reveals Cuban America as a space of overlapping Cuban and African diasporic experiences.<\/p>\n<p>L\u00f3pez shows how Afro-Cuban writers and performers in the U.S. align Cuban black and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">mulatto<\/a> identities, often subsumed in the mixed-race and postracial Cuban national imaginaries, with the material and symbolic blackness of African Americans and other Afro-Latinas\/os. In the works of Alberto O\u2019Farrill, Eusebia Cosme, R\u00f3mulo Lachata\u00f1er\u00e9, and others, Afro-Cubanness articulates the African diasporic experience in ways that deprive negro and mulato configurations of an exclusive link with Cuban nationalism. Instead, what is invoked is an \u201cunbecoming\u201d relationship between Afro-Cubans in the U.S and their domestic black counterparts. The transformations in Cuban racial identity across the hemisphere, represented powerfully in the literary and performance cultures of Afro-Cubans in the U.S., provide the fullest account of a transnational Cuba, one in which the Cuban American emerges as Afro-Cuban-American, and the Latino as Afro-Latino.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unbecoming Blackness: The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America New York University Press November 2012 272 pages 10 halftones Cloth ISBN: 9780814765463 Paper ISBN: 9780814765470 Antonio L\u00f3pez, Assistant Professor of English George Washington University In Unbecoming Blackness, Antonio L\u00f3pez uncovers an important, otherwise unrecognized century-long archive of literature and performance that reveals Cuban America as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,21,666,14646,1196,8,17,20],"tags":[11322,9099,673,11323,962,11324],"class_list":["post-24411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-latincarib","category-gaylesbian","category-latino","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-usa","tag-alberto-ofarrill","tag-antonio-lopez","tag-cuba","tag-eusebia-cosme","tag-new-york-university-press","tag-romulo-lachatanere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46145,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24411\/revisions\/46145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}