Forging Diaspora

by Guridy, Frank Andre

• ISBN13: 9780807871034
• ISBN10: 0807871036
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-05-15
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

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 Afro-descended populations in the two countries. InForging Diaspora, Frank Andre Guridy shows that the cross-national relationships nurtured by Afro-Cubans 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 Afro-Cubans and African Americans. These hidden histories of cultural interaction--of Cuban students attending Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute, the rise of Garveyism, the Havana-Harlem cultural connection during the Harlem Renaissance and Afro-Cubanism movement, and the creation of black travel networks during the Good Neighbor and early Cold War eras--illustrate the significance of cross-national linkages to the ways both Afro-descended populations negotiated the entangled processes of U.S. imperialism and racial discrimination. As a result of these relationships, argues Guridy, Afro-descended peoples in Cuba and the United States came to identify themselves as part of a transcultural African diaspora.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: Making Diaspora in the Shadow of Empire and Jim Crow	p. 1
Forging Diaspora in the Midst of Empire: The Tuskegee-Cuba Connection	p. 17
UnDios, Un Fin, Un Destino: Enacting Diaspora in the Garvey Movement	p. 61
Blues and Son from Harlem to Havana	p. 107
Destination without Humiliation: Black Travel within the Routes of Discrimination	p. 151
Epilogue	p. 195
Notes	p. 205
Bibliography	p. 235
Index	p. 251
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