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Black Histories in Cuba and Its Diaspora (December 2016): Works Cited

by Bonnie A. Lucero

Works Cited

Abreu, Christina D. Rhythms of Race: Cuban Musicians and the Making of Latino New York City and Miami, 1940-1960North Carolina, 2016 (CH, Sep’15, 53-0143).

Afro-Cuban Voices: On Race and Identity in Contemporary Cuba, ed. by Pedro Pérez Sarduy and Jean Stubbs.  University Press of Florida, 2000 (CH, Nov’00, 38-1713).

Allen, Jafari S. ¡Venceremos? The Erotics of Black Self-Making in CubaDuke, 2011.

Andaya, Elise. Conceiving Cuba: Reproduction, Women, and the State in the Post-Soviet EraRutgers, 2014.

Ayorinde, Christine. Afro-Cuban Religiosity, Revolution, and National Identity. University Press of Florida, 2005 (CH, Jul’05, 42-6416).

Baker, Geoffrey. Buena Vista in the Club: Rap, Reggaetón, and Revolution in HavanaDuke, 2011 (CH, Nov’11, 49-1368).

Barcia, Manuel. The Great African Slave Revolt of 1825: Cuba and the Fight for Freedom in Matanzas.  Louisiana State, 2012 (CH, Jan’13, 50-2823).

____. Seeds of Insurrection: Domination and Resistance on Western Cuban Plantations, 1808-1848Louisiana State, 2008.

Bejel, Emilio. Gay Cuban NationChicago, 2001 (CH, Mar’02, 39-3865).

Benson, Devyn Spence. Antiracism in Cuba: The Unfinished RevolutionNorth Carolina, 2016.

Bergad, Laird W. The Comparative Histories of Slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States. Cambridge, 2007 (CH, Jun’08, 45-5711).

Bergad, Laird W., Fe Iglesias García, and María del Carmen Barcia.  The Cuban Slave Market, 1790–1880.  Cambridge, 1995 (CH, Mar’96, 33-4099).

Berry, Mary Frances.  We Are Who We Say We Are”: A Black Family’s Search for Home across the Atlantic WorldOxford, 2015.

The Black Urban Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade, ed. by Jorge Cañizarez-Esguerra, Matt D. Childs, and James Sidbury.  Pennsylvania, 2013.

Blanco Borelli, Melissa.  She Is Cuba: A Genealogy of the Mulata Body.  Oxford, 2016.

Brock, Lisa, and Otis Cunningham.  “Race and the Cuban Revolution: A Critique of Carlos Moore’s ‘Castro, the Blacks, and Africa.’”  Cuban Studies no. 21 (1991): pp. 171–185.

Bronfman, Alejandra.  Measures of Equality: Social Science, Citizenship, and Race in Cuba, 1902-1940.  North Carolina, 2004 (CH, Jun’05, 42-6040).

Burgos, Adrian, Jr.  Cuban Star: How One Negro-League Owner Changed the Face of Baseball.  Hill and Wang, 2011.

Cabezas, Amalia L.  Economies of Desire: Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican RepublicTemple, 2009.

Casanova, Joan.  Bread or Bullets!: Urban Labor and Spanish Colonialism in Cuba, 1850-1898.  Pittsburgh, 1998 (CH, Apr’99, 36-4638).

Chambers, Stephen M.  No God but Gain: The Untold Story of Cuban Slavery, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Making of the United StatesVerso, 2015 (CH, May’16, 53-4078).

Chancy, Myriam J. A.  From Sugar to Revolution: Women’s Visions of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican RepublicWilfred Laurier, 2012 (CH, Nov’12, 50-1351).

Childs, Matt D.  The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the Struggle against Atlantic Slavery.  North Carolina, 2006 (CH, Oct’07, 45-1030).

Clark, Mary Ann.  Where Men Are, Wives and Mothers Rule: Santería Ritual Practices and Their Gender ImplicationsUniversity Press of Florida, 2005.

Cooper, Frederick, Thomas C. Holt, and Rebecca J. Scott.  Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation SocietiesNorth Carolina, 2000 (CH, Dec’00, 38-2285).

Corwin, Arthur F.  Spain and the Abolition of Slavery in Cuba, 1817-1886Texas, 1968 (CH, Nov’68).

Cosner, Charlotte A.  The Golden Leaf: How Tobacco Shaped Cuba and the Atlantic World.  Vanderbilt, 2015 (CH, Jun’15, 52-5423).

Cowling, Camillia.  Conceiving Freedom: Women of Color, Gender, and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de JaneiroNorth Carolina, 2013.

Cuban Counterpoints: The Legacy of Fernando Ortiz, ed. by Mauricio A. Font and Alfonso W. Quiroz.  Lexington Books, 2005.

Current, Cheris Brewer.  Questioning the Cuban Exile Model: Race, Gender, and Resettlement, 1959-1979LFB Scholarly Pub., 2010 (CH, Feb’11, 38-3445).

Daigle, Megan.  From Cuba with Love: Sex and Money in the Twenty-First Century.  California, 2015 (CH, Jul’15, 52-6175).

Daniel, Yvonne.  Rumba: Dance and Social Change in Contemporary CubaIndiana, 1995 (CH, Mar’96, 33-3832).

Díaz, María Elena.  The Virgin, the King, and the Royal Slaves of El Cobre: Negotiating Freedom in Colonial Cuba, 1670-1780.  Stanford, 2001 (CH, Sep’01, 39-0486).

Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography, ed. by Franklin W. Knight and Henry Louis Gates Jr.  6v.  Oxford, 2016.

Fernandes, Sujatha.  Cuba Represent!:  Cuban Arts, State Power, and the Making of New Revolutionary CulturesDuke, 2006.

Fernandez, Nadine T.  Revolutionizing Romance: Interracial Couples in Contemporary CubaRutgers, 2010.

Ferrer, Ada.  Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution.  Cambridge, 2014 (CH, Jul’15, 52-6048).

____.  Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898North Carolina, 1999 (CH, Mar’00, 37-4053).

Finch, Aisha K.  Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba: La Escalera and the Insurgencies of 1841-1844.  North Carolina, 2015 (CH, Dec’15, 53-1899).

Fischer, Sibylle.  Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of RevolutionUniversity of West Indies Press/Duke, 2004 (CH, Jan’05, 42-2975).

Franklin, Sarah L.  Women and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Cuba.  Rochester, 2012 (CH, Feb’13, 50-3428).

Fuente, Alejandro de la.  A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century CubaNorth Carolina, 2001.

____.  “Slave Law and Claims-Making in Cuba: The Tannenbaum Debate Revisited.”  Law and History Review, v. 22, no. 2, 2004: pp. 339–69.

Fuente, Alejandro de la, with the collaboration of César García del Pino and Bernardo Iglesias DelgadoHavana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century.  North Carolina, 2008 (CH, Feb’09, 46-3420).

García, Guadalupe.  Beyond the Walled City: Colonial Exclusion in HavanaCalifornia, 2016.

García Rodríguez, Gloria.  Voices of the Enslaved in Nineteenth-Century Cuba: A Documentary History, tr. by Nancy L. WestrateNorth Carolina, 2011.

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.  “Cuba: The Next Revolution” in film series Black in Latin America, 2011.

Gleijeses, Piero.  Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976North Carolina, 2002 (CH, May’02, 39-5447).

Gonzalez, Michelle A.  Afro-Cuban Theology: Religion, Race, Culture, and Identity.  University Press of Florida, 2006.

Graden, Dale T.  Disease, Resistance, and Lies: The Demise of the Transatlantic Slave Trade to Brazil and CubaLouisiana State, 2014 (CH, Dec’14, 52-2126).

Greenbaum, Susan D.  More than Black: Afro-Cubans in TampaUniversity Press of Florida, 2002 (CH, Feb’03, 40-3715).

Guerra, Lillian.  The Myth of José Martí: Conflicting Nationalisms in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba.  North Carolina, 2005 (CH, Jan’06, 43-2957).

____.  Visions of Power in Cuba: Revolution, Redemption, and Resistance, 1959-1971.  North Carolina, 2012 (CH, Mar’13, 50-4015).

Guridy, Frank Andre.  Forging Diaspora: Afro-Cubans and African Americans in a World of Empire and Jim CrowNorth Carolina, 2010.

Hall, Gwendolyn M.  Social Control in Slave Plantation Societies: A Comparison of St. Dominque and Cuba.  Johns Hopkins, 1972 (c1971; CH, Feb’73).

Hamilton, CarrieSexual Revolutions in Cuba: Passion, Politics, and Memory.  North Carolina, 2012.

Hansing, Katrin.  Rasta, Race and Revolution: The Emergence and Development of the Rastafari Movement in Socialist CubaBerlin: Lit, 2006.

Hatzky, Christine.  Cubans in Angola: South-South Cooperation and Transfer of Knowledge, 1976-1991.  Wisconsin, 2015 (CH, Jul’15, 52-6019).

Hay, Michelle A.  I’ve Been Black in Two Countries”: Black Cuban Views on Race in the U.SLFB Scholarly Pub., 2009.

Hearn, Adrian H.  Cuba: Religion, Social Capital, and DevelopmentDuke, 2008.

Helg, Aline.  Our Rightful Share: The Afro-Cuban Struggle for Equality, 1886-1912North Carolina, 1995.

Horne, Gerald.  Race to Revolution: The United States and Cuba during Slavery and Jim CrowMonthly Review, 2014 (CH, Dec’14, 52-2149).

Howard, Philip A.  Black Labor, White Sugar: Caribbean Braceros and Their Struggle for Power in the Cuban Sugar IndustryLouisiana State, 2015 (CH, Nov’15, 53-1439).

Ibarra, Jorge.  Prologue to Revolution: Cuba, 1898-1958L. Rienner, 1998 (CH, Dec’08, 36-2317).

Klein, Herbert S.  Slavery in the Americas: A Comparative Study of Virginia and CubaChicago, 1967 (CH, Nov’67).

Knight, Franklin W.  Slave Society in Cuba during the Nineteenth Century.  Wisconsin, 1971 (c1970; CH, May’71).

Kutzinski, Vera M.  Sugar’s Secrets: Race and the Erotics of Cuban NationalismUniversity Press of Virginia, 1993 (CH, Sep’94, 32-0186).

La Rosa Corzo, Gabino.  Runaway Slave Settlements in Cuba: Resistance and Repression, tr. by Mary Todd.  North Carolina, 2003 (CH, Jun’04, 41-6091).

Lane, Jill.  Blackface Cuba, 1840-1895.  Pennsylvania, 2005 (CH, Dec’05, 43-1946).

Lazo, Rodrigo.  Writing to Cuba: Filibustering and Cuban Exiles in the United States.  North Carolina, 2005.

Lipman, Jana K.  Guantánamo: A Working-Class History between Empire and RevolutionCalifornia, 2009 (CH, Nov’09, 47-1599).

Lomas, Laura.  Translating Empire: José Martí, Migrant Latino Subjects, and American ModernitiesDuke, 2008.

Luis-Brown, David.  Waves of Decolonization: Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United StatesDuke, 2008.

Marquese, Rafael, Tâmis Parron, and Márcia Regina Berbel.  Slavery and Politics: Brazil and Cuba, 1790-1850, tr. by Leonardo Marques.  New Mexico, 2016.

Martínez-Alier, Verena.  Marriage, Class and Colour in Nineteenth-Century Cuba: A Study of Racial Attitudes and Sexual Values in a Slave SocietyCambridge, 1974.

Martínez-Fernández, Luis.  Fighting Slavery in the Caribbean: The Life and Times of a British Family in Nineteenth-Century HavanaM. E. Sharpe, 1998.

Merleaux, April.  Sugar and Civilization: American Empire and the Cultural Politics of SweetnessNorth Carolina, 2015.

Moore, Carlos.  Castro, the Blacks, and Africa.  Center for Afro-American Studies, University of California, 1988.

____.  Pichón: A Memoir: Race and Revolution in Castro’s CubaLawrence Hill Books, 2008.

Moore, Robin D.  Nationalizing Blackness: Afrocubanismo and Artistic Revolution in Havana, 1920-1940Pittsburgh, 1998 (CH, Jul’98, 35-6155).

Morales Domínguez, Esteban.  Race in Cuba: Essays on the Revolution and Racial Inequality, ed. and tr. under direction of Gary Prevost and August Nimtz.  Monthly Review, 2013 (CH, Aug’13, 50-7063).

Moreno Fraginals, Manuel.  The Sugarmill: The Socioeconomic Complex of Sugar in Cuba, 1760-1860, tr. by Cedric Belfrage.  Monthly Review, 1976 (CH, Mar’77).

Morrison, Karen Y.  Cuba’s Racial Crucible: The Sexual Economy of Social Identities, 1750-2000Indiana, 2015.

Murray, David R.  Odious Commerce: Britain, Spain, and the Abolition of the Cuban Slave Trade.  Cambridge, 1981 (c1980; CH,Oct’81).

Nwankwo, Ifeoma Kiddoe.  Black Cosmopolitanism: Racial Consciousness and Transnational Identity in the Nineteenth-Century AmericasPennsylvania, 2005 (CH, Apr’06, 43-4817).

Ocasio, Rafael.  Afro-Cuban Costumbrismo: From Plantations to the Slums.  University Press of Florida, 2012.

Ortiz, Fernando.  Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar, tr. by Harriet de Onís; introds. by Bronislaw Malinowski and Fernando Coronil.  Duke, 1995.

Otero, Solimar.  Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World.  Rochester, 2010.

Palmié, Stephen.  The Cooking of History: How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion.  Chicago, 2013.

____. Wizards and Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition.  Duke, 2002. 

Pappademos, Melina.  Black Political Activism and the Cuban RepublicNorth Carolina, 2011 (CH, Mar’12, 49-4048).

Paquette, Robert L.  Sugar Is Made with Blood: The Conspiracy of La Escalera and the Conflict between Empires over Slavery in CubaWesleyan, 1988 (CH, May’89, 26-5221).

Peña, Susana.  ¡Oye Loca!:  From the Mariel Boatlift to Gay Cuban MiamiMinnesota, 2013.

Perry, Marc D.  Negro Soy Yo: Hip Hop and Raced Citizenship in Neoliberal Cuba.  Duke, 2016.

Poyo, Gerald E.  Exile and Revolution: José D. Poyo, Key West, and Cuban IndependenceUniversity Press of Florida, 2014.

Prados-Torreira, Teresa.  Mambisas: Rebel Women in Nineteenth-Century Cuba.  University Press of Florida, 2005 (CH, Sep’06, 44-0506).

Queeley, Andrea J.  Rescuing Our Roots: The African Anglo-Caribbean Diaspora in Contemporary CubaUniversity Press of Florida, 2015 (CH, Apr’16, 53-3638).

Queloides: Race and Racism in Cuban Contemporary Art=Raza y Racismo en el Arte Cubano Contemporáneo, ed. by Alejandro de la Fuente; curated by/curaduria Alejandro de la Fuente and Elio Rodríguez Valdés.  Mattress Factory, 2011.

Race and Class in Rural Brazil, ed. by Charles Wagley.  UNESCO, 1952.

Radanovich, John.  The Wildman of Rhythm: The Life & Music of Benny Moré.  University Press of Florida, 2009.

Reid-Vazquez, Michele.  The Year of the Lash: Free People of Color in Cuba and the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic WorldGeorgia, 2011 (CH, Jun’12, 49-5862).

Ring, Harry.  How Cuba Uprooted Race DiscriminationPioneer Publishers, 1961.

Rodríguez-Mangual, Edna M.  Lydia Cabrera and the Construction of an Afro-Cuban Cultural IdentityNorth Carolina, 2004 (CH, Jan’05, 42-2689).

Roland, L. Kaifa.  Cuban Color in Tourism and La Lucha: An Ethnography of Racial MeaningsOxford, 2011.

Román, Reinaldo L.  Governing Spirits: Religion, Miracles, and Spectacles in Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1898-1956.  North Carolina, 2007 (CH, Nov’08, 46-1660).

Ryer, Paul.  Beyond Cuban Waters: Africa, La Yuma, and the Island’s Global Imagination.  Vanderbilt, 2016.

Sartorius, David.  Ever Faithful: Race, Loyalty, and the Ends of Empire in Spanish CubaDuke, 2013.

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Schmidt-Nowara, Christopher.  Empire and Antislavery: Spain, Cuba, and Puerto Rico, 1833-1874Pittsburgh, 1999 (CH, Dec’13, 51-2256).

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____.  Slave Emancipation in Cuba: The Transition to Free Labor, 1860-1899Princeton, 1986 (c1985; CH, Jun’86).

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Shaffer, Kirwin R.  Anarchism and Countercultural Politics in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba.  University Press of Florida, 2005 (CH, Jan’05, 43-2959).

Singleton, Theresa A.  Slavery behind the Wall: An Archaeology of a Cuban Coffee Plantation.  University Press of Florida, 2015 (CH, Dec’15, 53-1903).

Sippial, Tiffany A.  Prostitution, Modernity, and the Making of the Cuban Republic, 1840–1920North Carolina, 2013 (CH, May’14, 51-5186).

Skwiot, Christine.  The Purpose of Paradise: U.S. Tourism and Empire in Cuba and Hawai’iPennsylvania, 2010 (CH, Apr’11, 48-4684).

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Twinam, Ann.  Public Lives, Private Secrets: Gender, Honor, Sexuality, and Illegitimacy in Colonial Spanish AmericaStanford, 1999 (CH, Jan’00, 37-2931).

____.  Purchasing Whiteness: Pardos, Mulattos, and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish IndiesStanford, 2015 (CH, Jul’15, 52-6049).

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Whitney, Robert, and Graciela Chailloux Laffita. Subjects or Citizens: British Caribbean Workers in Cuba, 1900–1960University Press of Florida, 2013.

Wirtz, Kristina.  Performing Afro-Cuba: Image, Voice, Spectacle in the Making of Race and HistoryChicago, 2014.

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