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

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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 connec...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Guridy, Frank Andre
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2010.
Series:Envisioning Cuba.
Subjects:
African Americans > Relations with Cubans > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Race identity > History > 20th century.
Black people > Race identity > Cuba > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Social conditions > 20th century.
Black people > Cuba > Social conditions > 20th century.
African diaspora.
United States > Race relations.
Cuba > Race relations.
African Americans > Race identity.
African Americans > Relations with Cubans.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Blacks > Race identity.
Blacks > Social conditions.
Race relations.
Cuba.
United States.
History.
Table of 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.

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