Unbecoming Blackness: The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America

by Antonio M. López and Antonio López

Book Overview

2014 Runner-Up, MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies
In Unbecoming Blackness, Antonio L pez 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.

L pez shows how Afro-Cuban writers and performers in the U.S. align Cuban black and mulatto...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814765467
• ISBN13: 9780814765463
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"