Sunday, September 28, 2014

Frank Guridy on African-Americans and Afro-Cubans

Check out this fascinating interview with Frank Guridy on African-American and Afro-Cuban relations. The importance of Tuskegee, transnational racial solidarity, Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance's connections to Afro-Cubans (poetry, music), and even unexpected ways for Afro-Puerto Ricans to assert their rights are mentioned. I am dying to read more of Guridy's perspective on why Afro-Puerto Ricans were less likely to foreground their race in political struggles for equality (as in civil rights, race-based organizing). The ways in which the Garveyite movement also shaped Afro-Cubans is also alluded to as an important movement for the African Diaspora in Cuba, the Anglophone Caribbean, and African-Americans.

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