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Rap's Diasporic Dialogues: Cuba's Redefinition of Blackness
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This article is published in Journal of Popular Music Studies.The article was published on 2004-04-01. It has received 52 citations till now.read more
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Negro Soy Yo: Hip Hop and Raced Citizenship in Neoliberal Cuba
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the music and lives of black-identified raperos (rappers) and examine how these young artists craft notions of black Cuban identity and racial citizenship, along with calls for racial justice, at the fraught confluence of growing Afro-Cuban marginalization and long held perceptions of Cuba as a non-racial nation.
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The New Afro-Cuban Cultural Movement and the Debate on Race in Contemporary Cuba
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze recent debates on race and racism in Cuba in the context of changing economic and social conditions in the island and present a new Afro-Cuban cultural movement.
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Recasting 'Black Venus' in the new African Diaspora
TL;DR: The authors explored the ways in which transnational feminist analysis can be deployed to reconfigure new gendered and racialized cartographies of the African Diaspora in Europe, by linking endemic factors feeding the supply of Nigerian women for the purposes of (in)voluntary participation in the Italian sex industry, such as the localized feminization of poverty and regionally specific perceptions of sex work as a temporary economic strategy.