The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States

586 Pages·2010·5.017 MB·English

by  Mriam jiménez Román & Juan Flores

The Afro-Latin@ Reader
A John Hope Franklin Center Book

The Afro-Latin@ Reader
history and culture in the united states
Edited by Miriam Jiménez Román and Juan Flores
duke university press durham and london 2010
© 2010 Duke University Press. All rights reserved.
Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper ♾
Designed by Jennifer Hill. Typeset in Quadraat by Tseng Information Systems, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last
printed page of this book.
To afrodescendientes everywhere

contents
Acknowledgments, xiii
Editorial Note, xv
Introduction, 1
I Historical Background before 1900
peter h. Wood The Earliest Africans in North America, 19
Jack d. Forbes Black Pioneers: The Spanish-Speaking
Afro-Americans of the Southwest, 27
virginia meacham gould Slave and Free Women of Color
in the Spanish Ports of New Orleans, Mobile, and Pensacola, 38
susan d. greenbaum Afro-Cubans in Tampa, 51
adrián castro Excerpt from Pulling the Muse from the Drum, 62
II Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
arthur a. schomburg Excerpt from “Racial Integrity:
A Plea for the Establishment of a Chair of Negro History in Our Schools and
Colleges,” 67
Jesse hoFFnung-garskoF The World of Arturo Alfonso
Schomburg, 70
evelyne laurent-perrault Invoking Arturo Schomburg’s
Legacy in Philadelphia, 92
III  Afro-Latin@s on the Color Line
EvElio Grillo Black Cuban, Black American, 99
JEsús Colón A Puerto Rican in New York and Other Sketches, 113
nanCy raquEl Mirabal Melba Alvarado, El Club  
Cubano Inter-Americano, and the Creation of Afro-Cubanidades  
in New York City, 120
adrian burGos Jr. An Uneven Playing Field: Afro-Latinos  
in Major League Baseball, 127
GabriEl Haslip-viEra Changing Identities:  
An Afro-Latin@ Family Portrait, 142
GraCiEla ¡Eso era tremendo!  
An Afro-Cuban Musician Remembers, 150
IV  Roots of Salsa: Afro-Latin@ Popular Music
rutH GlassEr From “Indianola” to “Ño Colá”:  
The Strange Career of the Afro-Puerto Rican Musician, 157
louis rEyEs rivEra Excerpt from cu/bop, 176
Jairo MorEno Bauzá–Gillespie–Latin/Jazz: Difference,  
Modernity, and the Black Caribbean, 177
david F. GarCía Contesting that Damned Mambo: Arsenio 
Rodríguez and the People of El Barrio and the Bronx in the 1950s, 187
Juan FlorEs Boogaloo and Latin Soul, 199
tato laviEra Excerpt from the salsa of bethesda fountain, 207
V  Black Latin@ Sixties
Carlos Cooks Hair Conking; Buy Black, 211
pEdro r. rivEra Carlos A. Cooks:  
Dominican Garveyite in Harlem, 215
piri tHoMas Down These Mean Streets, 219
viCtor HErnándEz Cruz African Things, 232
sandra maría esteves Black Notes and
“You Do Something to Me,” 233
pablo “yoruba” guzmán Before People Called Me a Spic,
They Called Me a Nigger, 235
Felipe luciano Excerpt from Jíbaro, My Pretty Nigger, 244
marta moreno vega The Yoruba Orisha Tradition Comes
to New York City, 245
luis barrios Reflections and Lived Experiences of Afro-Latin@
Religiosity, 252
sherezada “chiqui” vicioso Discovering Myself:
Un Testimonio, 262
JoseFina báez Excerpt from Dominicanish, 266
VI Afro-Latinas
angela Jorge The Black Puerto Rican Woman in Contemporary
American Society, 269
spring redd Something Latino Was Up with Us, 276
mariposa (maría teresa Fernández) Excerpt from Poem
for My Grifa-Rican Sistah, or Broken Ends Broken Promises, 280
marta i. cruz-Janzen Latinegras: Desired Women—Undesirable
Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, and Wives, 282
nilaJa sun Letter to a Friend, 296
ana m. lara Uncovering Mirrors: Afro-Latina Lesbian Subjects, 298
marianela medrano The Black Bellybutton of a Bongo, 314
VII Public Images and (Mis)Representations
miriam Jiménez román Notes on Eusebia Cosme and
Juano Hernández, 319
carlos Flores Desde el Mero Medio: Race Discrimination
within the Latin@ Community, 323