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Forging Diaspora: Afrocubans And African Americans In A World Of Empire And Jim Crow (Envisioning Cuba)
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Cuba'S Geographic Proximity To The United States And Its Centrality To U.S. Imperial Designs Following The War Of 1898 Led To The Creation Of A Unique Relationship Between Afrodescended Populations In The Two Countries. In Forging Diaspora, Frank Andre Guridy Shows That The Crossnational Relationships Nurtured By Afrocubans And Black Americans Helped To Shape The Political Strategies Of Both Groups As They Attempted To Overcome A Shared History Of Oppression And Enslavement.Drawing On Archival Sources In Both Countries, Guridy Traces Four Encounters Between Afrocubans And African Americans. These Hidden Histories Of Cultural Interactionof Cuban Students Attending Booker T. Washington'S Tuskegee Institute, The Rise Of Garveyism, The Havanaharlem Cultural Connection During The Harlem Renaissance And Afrocubanism Movement, And The Creation Of Black Travel Networks During The Good Neighbor And Early Cold War Erasillustrate The Significance Of Crossnational Linkages To The Ways Both Afrodescended Populations Negotiated The Entangled Processes Of U.S. Imperialism And Racial Discrimination. As A Result Of These Relationships, Argues Guridy, Afrodescended Peoples In Cuba And The United States Came To Identify Themselves As Part Of A Transcultural African Diaspora.
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