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Forging diaspora : Afro-Cubans and African Americans in a world of empire and Jim Crow / Frank Andre Guridy.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Envisioning CubaPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2010.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 270 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780807895979
  • 0807895970
  • 9781469604060
  • 146960406X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Forging diaspora.DDC classification:
  • 305.896/073 22
LOC classification:
  • E184.C97 G875 2010eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction : making diaspora in the shadow of empire and Jim Crow -- Forging diaspora in the midst of empire : the Tuskegee-Cuba connection -- Un dios, un fin, un destino : enacting diaspora in the Garvey movement -- Blues and son from Harlem to Havana -- Destination without humiliation : Black travel within the routes of discrimination.
Summary: Drawing on archival sources in both countries, Guridy traces four encounters between Afro-Cubans and African Americans. These hidden histories of cultural interaction--of Cuban students attending Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute, the rise of Garveyism, the Havana-Harlem cultural connection during the Harlem Renaissance and Afro-Cubanism movement, and the creation of black travel networks during the Good Neighbor and early Cold War eras--illustrate the significance of cross-national linkages to the ways both Afro-descended populations negotiated the entangled processes of U.S. imperial.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : making diaspora in the shadow of empire and Jim Crow -- Forging diaspora in the midst of empire : the Tuskegee-Cuba connection -- Un dios, un fin, un destino : enacting diaspora in the Garvey movement -- Blues and son from Harlem to Havana -- Destination without humiliation : Black travel within the routes of discrimination.

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Drawing on archival sources in both countries, Guridy traces four encounters between Afro-Cubans and African Americans. These hidden histories of cultural interaction--of Cuban students attending Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute, the rise of Garveyism, the Havana-Harlem cultural connection during the Harlem Renaissance and Afro-Cubanism movement, and the creation of black travel networks during the Good Neighbor and early Cold War eras--illustrate the significance of cross-national linkages to the ways both Afro-descended populations negotiated the entangled processes of U.S. imperial.

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