Afro-Cuban History & Culture Reading List
Compiled by by Otis Cunningham
Otis Cunningham is an activist, health worker, and life-long Chicagoan. He supported numerous liberation movements in Africa, Cuba, Nicaragua, and other countries during the 1960s and 1970s, served on the African American Solidarity Committee editorial board, and was co-editor for the magazine African Agenda. He is married to Dr. Lisa Brock. He has since retired and continues his activism in several causes.
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Benson, Devyn Spence
2016. Anti-Racism in Cuba: The Unfinished Revolution, UNC Press
2013. “Cuba Calls: African American Tourism, Race, and the Cuban Revolution, 1959-1961,”
Hispanic Historical Review 93 (2): 239-71.
2018. Representations of Black Women in Cuba
https://www.aaihs.org/representations-of-black-women-in-cuba/
2017. Fears of Black Political Activism In Cuba and Beyond, 1912-2017
https://www.aaihs.org/fears-of-black-political-activism-in-cuba-and-beyond-1912-2017/
2018. Sara Gómez: Afrocubana (Afro-Cuban Women’s) Activism after 1961
Cuban Studies, Volume 46, 2018, 134-158, University of Pittsburgh Press
2021. Redefining Mestizaje: How Trans- Caribbean Exchanges Solidified Black Consciousness in Cuba, Small Axe 65, 91-108, July 2021
2020. AfroCubanas: History, Thought, and Cultural Practices, Rowman & Littlefield (Editor English Edition)
Brock, Lisa and Digna Castañeda Fuertes, Eds.
1998. Between Race and Empire: African-Americans and Cubans Before the Revolution, Temple University Press.
Chase, Michelle
2015. Revolution Within the Revolution: Women and Gender Politics in Cuba, 1952-1962, UNC Press.
Fernandes, Sujatha
2016. “Afro-Cuba Activist Fight Racism Between Two Fires,” The Nation, May 24.
2006. Cuba Represente! Cuban Arts, State Power and the Making of New Revolutionary Cultures, Duke.
2020. The Cuban Hustle: Culture, Politics, Everyday Life, Duke University Press
Fernandez, Nadine
2010. Revolutionizing Romance: Interracial Couples in Contemporary Cuba, Rutgers University Press.
Guridy, Frank Andre
2010. Forging Diaspora: Afro-Cubans and African Americans in a World of Empire and Jim Crow, UNC Press.
2003. From Solidarity to Cross-Fertilization: Afro-Cuban/African American Interaction during the 1930s and 1940s, Radical History Review Issue 87 (fall 2003): 19–48.
2009. “ The War on the Negro’: Race and the Revolution of 1933.” Cuban Studies 40, 49-73
2009. “Feeling Diaspora in Harlem and Havana.” Social Text 27 (Spring 2009 ): 115-40
2003. “Enemies of the White Race “: The Machadista State and the UNIA in Cuba.” Caribbean Studies 31 ( 2003 ): 117-39
Casal, Lourdes
1979. Revolution and Race: Blacks in Contemporary Cuba, 1-25 https://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/media/documents/publication/wp39_revolution_and_race_blacks_in_contemporary_cuba.pdf
Lomas, Laura
2022. Afro-Latina Disidentification and Bridging: Lourdes Casal’s Critical Race Theory
Meridians, 21(1), 123-154. https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-9554101
Hamilton, Carrie
2014. Sexual Revolutions in Cuba: Passion, Politics and Memory, UNC Press.
Hudson, Anne Hicking
2012. The Capacity to Share: A Study of Cuban International Cooperation in Educational Development, Palgrave Press.
Perez Sarduy, Pedro and Jean Stubbs, Eds.
2000. Afro-Cuban Voices: On Race, Identity in Contemporary Cuba, University Press of Florida.
Perry, Marc
2016. Negro Soy Yo: Hip Hop and Race, Citizenship in Neoliberal Cuba, Duke University Press.
2009. “Hip Hop’s Diasporic Landscape of Blackness “, In From Toussaint to Tupac: The Black International since the Age of Revolution, edited by Michael O. West, William G. Martin, & Fanon Che Wilkins, UNC Press, 232-258
Queeley, Andrea
2015. Rescuing our Roots: The African Anglo-Caribbean Diaspora in Contemporary Cuba, University Press of Florida.
2021. The Antidote to Blackness. Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7OOi0URbAY
Roland, L. Kaifa.
2010. Cuban Color in Tourism and the La Lucha: An Ethnography of Racial Meaning, Oxford University Press.
Saunders, Tanya
2015. Cuban Underground Hip Hop: Black Thoughts, Black Revolution, Black Modernity, University. of Texas Press.
Pappademos, Melina
2011. Black Political Activism and the Cuban Republic, UNC Press
2017. Centering the Voices of Black Activists in Post-Revolutionary Cuba. Read more
Pettway, Matthew
2020. Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection: Manzano, Placido, and Afro-Latino Religion, University Press of Mississippi
Bolles, A. Lynn
1999. “Ellen Irene Diggs: Coming of Age in Atlanta, Havana and Baltimore” In African American Pioneers in Anthropology, edited by Ira E. Harrison and Faye V. Harrison, 154-67, University of Illinois Press, 1999
1995. McGarrity, Gayle and Osvaldo Cardenas
Cuba, Afro-Latin Americans Today: No Longer Invisible, edited by Minority Rights Group, 77-108
Cobb, Martha
1979. Harlem, Haiti, and Havana: A Comparative Critical Study of Langston Hughes, Jacques Roumain, Nicolas Guillen, Three Continents
Gatewood, Willard
1971. “Smoked Yankees” and the Struggle for Empire: Letters from Negro Soldiers 1898-1902, University of Illinois Press
Lucero, Bonnie
2018. Revolutionary Masculinity & Racial Inequality: Gendering War and Politics in Cuba, University of New Mexico Press
2019. A Cuban City, Segregated: Race and Urbanization in Nineteenth Century, University of Alabama Press
Ferrer, Ada
1999. Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898, UNC Press
2014. Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in The Age of Revolution, Cambridge University Press
Guerra, Lilian
2012. Visions of Power in Cuba: Revolution, Redemption, and Resistance, 1959-1971, UNC Press
2005. The Myth of Jose Marti: Conflicting Nationalisms In Early Twentieth-Century Cuba, UNC Press
Lambe, Mae Ariel
2019. “Support the Brother People of Ethiopia, The Italo-Ethiopia War and Development of Antifascism in Cuba, 1935-1936”. In No Barrier Can Contain it Cuban AntiFascism And The Spanish Civil War, UNC Press, 54-75
Stock, Marie Ann
2009. “Documenting Tumultuous Times: “ New Cultural Organizations Proffer Alternatives”, In On Location in Cuba: Street Filmmaking during Times of Transition, UNC Press, 35-76
2009. “Filming in the Margins: Esteban Insausti Explores Life and Art amidst Chaos”, In On Location in Cuba: Street Filmmaking during Times of Transition, UNC Press, 206-236
Redmond, L. Shana
2014. “From Race to Nation: “ Ethiopia “ and Pan-African Pageantry in the UNIA. In Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora, NYU Press, 21-62
2023. Black Women, Violence, and the Territory of Global Anti-blackness
https://www.aaihs.org/black-women-violence-and-the-territory-of-global-antiblackness/
Clealand Pilar Danielle
2017. The Power of Race in Cuba: Racial Ideology and Black Consciousness During the Revolution, Oxford University Press
2019. Who Are the Black Revolutionaries?: Resistance in Cuba and the State Boundaries that Endure, 323-338
Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, Volume 21, Number 4, October-December 2019, Black Cuban Revolutionaries
Mealy, Rosemari
1993. Fidel & Malcolm X: Memories of a Meeting, Black Classic Books
Latner, Teishan
2018. Cuban Revolution in America: Havana and the Making of a United States Left, 1968-1992, UNC Press
Hicks, Anasa
2022. Hierarchies at Home: Domestic Service in Cuba from Abolition to Revolution, Cambridge University Press
Hynson, Rachel
2019. Laboring For The State: Women, Family, and Work in Revolutionary Cuba, 1959-1971, Cambridge University Press
Helg, Aline
1995. Our Rightful Share: The Afro-Cuban Struggle for Equality, 1886-1912, UNC Press
2000. “Black Men, Racial Stereotyping, and Violence in U.S. South and Cuba at Turn of the Century.”
Comparative Studies in Society and History ,Volume 42 , Issue 3 , July 2000 , pp. 576 – 604
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417500002942
Rushing, Fannie and Aisha Finch (Editors)
2019. Breaking The Chains Forging The Nation: The Afro-Cuban Fight For Freedom and Equality, 1812-1912, LSU Press
De La Fuente, Alejandro
2001. A Nation For All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba, UNC Press
Saney, Isaac, 2023. Cuba, Africa, And Apartheid’s End: Africa’s Children Return, Lexington Books
Peters, Christabell
2012. Cuban Identity and the Angolan Experience, Palgrave Mcmillan
Moore, D. Robin
1997. Nationalizing Blackness: Afrocubanismo and Artistic Revolution in Havana, 1920-1940, University of Pittsburgh Press
Scott, J. Rebecca
1985. Slave Emancipation In Cuba: The Transition to Free Labor, 1860-1899, Princeton University Press
Reid-Vazquez, Michele
2011. The Year of the Lash: Free People of Color in Cuba and the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World, University of Georgia Press
Varella, Claudia and Manuel Barcia
2020. Wage-Earning Slaves: Coartacion in Nineteenth -Century Cuba, University of Florida Press
Perez, Louis A. (Editor)
1992. Slaves, Sugar, & Colonial Society: Travel Accounts of Cuba, 1801-1899, Scholarly Resources Inc.
Garcia, Rodriguez Gloria
2011. Voices of the Enslaved in Nineteenth-Century Cuba, UNC Press
Childs, Matt D.
2006. The 1812 Aponte Rebellion In Cuba and the Struggle against Atlantic Slavery, UNC Press
2013. “ Re-creating African Ethnic Identities in Cuba”, In The Black Urban Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade, University of Pennsylvania Press, Canizares-Esguerra ( Editor), 85-100
Finch, Aisha
2015. Rethinking Slave Rebellion In Cuba: La Escalera and the Insurgencies of 1841-44, UNC Press
2017. Raceless Nationalism in Revolutionary Cuba: Rethinking Racial Politics https://www.aaihs.org/raceless-nationalism-in-revolutionary-cuba-rethinking-racial-politics/
Garcia, Guadalupe
2016. Beyond The Walled City: Colonial Exclusion in Havana, University of California Press
Hall, Simon
2020. Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and The Making of The 1960’s, Faber & Faber Ltd
Schwall, Elizabeth
2021. Dancing with The Revolution: Power, Politics, Privilege in Cuba, UNC Press
Andrews, Reid George ( Editors )
2022. Voices Of The Race: Black Newspapers in Latin America, 1870-1960, Cambridge University Press
Brunson, Takkara
2021. Black Women, Citizenship, And The Making Of Modern Cuba, UF Press
2022. Historicizing Black Left Feminism in Pre-Revolutionary Cuba, September 21, 2022
https://www.aaihs.org/historicizing-black-left-feminism-in-prerevolutionary-cuba/
Mirabal, Raquel Nancy
2017. Suspect Freedoms: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1957, NYU Press
2017. The Cuban Revolution and the Myth of Racial Inclusivity
https://www.aaihs.org/the-cuban-revolution-and-the-myth-of-racial-inclusivity/
Blum, Denise
2011. Cuban Youth & Revolutionary Values: Educating The New Socialist Citizen, University of Texas Press
Dominguez, Morales Esteban
2013. Race in Cuba: Essays on the Revolution and Racial Inequality, MR Press
Gonzales, Roberto Echevarria
1999. The Pride of Havana: A History of Cuban Baseball, Oxford University Press
Kelly, Robin D.G.
1994. “ This Ain’t Ethiopia, But It’ll Do: African Americans and the Spanish Civil War, In Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and The Black Working Class, The Free Press, 123-160
1994. “ Afric’Sons With Banner Red”: African American Communists and the Politics of Culture, 1919-1934, 103-122
2023. Deprovincializing Black Studies and Translating Blackness’s Beyond Borders
https://www.aaihs.org/deprovincializing-black-studies-and-translating-blackness-beyond-borders/
Baraka, Amiri
2016. Cuba Libre ( 1960), November 28, 2016
Viewpoint Magazine
https://viewpointmag.com/2016/11/28/cuba-libre-1960/
Fleming, M. Crystal
2023.Translating Blackness and Transcending Hierarchies of Belonging
https://www.aaihs.org/translating-blackness-and-transcending-hierarchies-of-belonging/
Garcia-Peña, Lorgia
2023. Translating Global Anti-blackness: An Author’s Response
https://www.aaihs.org/translating-global-antiblackness-an-authors-response/
Plummer, Brenda Gayle
1996. “A New Era” In Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960, UNC Press, 285-297
McLeod, Marc C .
1996. “ Garveyism In Cuba, 1920-1940.” Journal of Caribbean History 30 ( 1996 ): 132-68
1998. “ Undesirable Aliens: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism in the Comparison of Haitian and British West Indian
Immigrant Workers in Cuba, 1912-1939.” Journal of Social History 31, no. 3 (1998): 599-723
1998. “Castro in Harlem: A Cold War Watershed.” In Rethinking the Cold War, edited by Allen Hunter, 133-53, Temple University Press
Nwankwo, Ifeoma Kiddoe
1999. “ Langston Hughes and the Translations of Nicolas Guillen’s Afro-Cuban Culture and Language.” Langston Hughes
Review 16, nos,1and 2 ( 1999-2001 ): 55-72
Alkalimat, Abdul and Kate Williams
2015. Roots and Flowers: The Life and Work of the Afro-Cuban Librarian Marta Terry González, Library Juice Press
Philip, Howard A.
1999. “ Creolization and Integration: The Development Of A Political Culture Among The Pan-Afro-Cuban Benevolent
Societies, 1878-1895”, In Crossing Boundaries: Comparative History of Black People in Diaspora, Edited by Darlene Clark
Hine and Jacqueline, University of Indiana Press, 134-158
Stubbs, Jean
1995. “ Social and Political Motherhood of Cuba: Mariana Grajales Cuello”, In Engendering History: Caribbean Women in Historical Perspective, editor Verene Shepherd, St. Martin’s Press, 296-317
Castaneda, Digna
1995.”The Female Slave in Cuba during the First half of the Nineteenth Century”, In Engendering History: Caribbean Women in Historical Perspective, Edited by Verene Shepherd, St. Martin’s Press, 141-154
Johnson, J. john
1993. “ The Republics as Blacks” In Latin America in Caricature, University of Texas Press, 157-209
Howard, A, Philip
1998. Changing History: Afro-Cuban Cabildos and Societies Color in The Nineteenth Century, LSU Press
Bastian, Hope
2018. Everyday Adjustments in Havana: Economic Reforms, Mobility, and Emerging Inequalities, Lexington Books
Grillo, Evelio
2000. Black Cuban, Black American: A Memoir, Arte Publico Press
Morrison, Karen Y.
2015. Cuban’s Racial Crucible: The Sexual Economy of Social Identities, 1750-2000, Indiana University Press
Ibarra, Jorge
1998. Prologue to Revolution: Cuba, 1898-1958, Translated by Marjorie Moore, Lynne Rienner Publishers
Scott, Julius S. 2020. The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution
https://www.versobooks.com/products/832-the-common-wind
Fletcher, Bill Jr.2016. Black America and the Passing of Fidel Castro ( November 26, 2016)
https://billfletcherjr.com/2016/black-america-passing-fidel-castro/
2021: Berry, Maya J. “Black Feminist Rumba Pedagogies.”
Dance Journal. 43 (2) (October 2021): 27-48
2001. Young, Cynthia
Havana up in Harlem: LeRoi Jones, Harold Cruse and the Making of a Cultural Revolution Science & Society, Vol. 65. No. 1. Color, Culture and Gender in the 1960’s ( Spring 2001): 12-38 https://www.jstor.org/stable/40403883
Mislan, Cristina
2019. Transnational Legacies of Slavery and Revolution in ‘ The Black Scholar ‘, September 18, 2019
https://www.aaihs.org/transnational-legacies-of-slavery-and-revolution-in-the-black-scholar/
Preston, Ashley Robertson
2022. “ Looking Beyond the United States,” Mary McLeod Bethune’s Relationships with Afro-Cubans. Phylon (1960-)
Vol.59.No.2 (Winter 2022) 77-88, Clark Atlanta University https://www.jstor.org/stable/27180576
2023. Mary McLeod Bethune: The Pan-Africanist, University Press of Florida
Seidman, J. Sara
2012. Tricontinental Routes of Solidarity: Stokely Carmichael In Cuba, Journal of Transnational American Studies, 4 (2)
http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0wp587sj
Sullivan, Peace Frances
2014. “Forging Ahead” in Banes, Cuba: Garveyism in a Unified Fruit Company Town, New West Indian Guide, January 2014
https://brill.com/view/journals/nwig/88/3-4/article-p231_1.xml?language=en
Cuba-African Roots Run Deep It’s Lesson Students Are Not Learning In The Classroom
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/cuba-african-roots-run-deep-it-s-lesson-students-aren-n767616
Cabildo de Regla Project: A Digital Archive
archipelagosjournal.org
Video Taped Lecture
Revolutionizing Cultural Activism in Cuba-A Lecture by Roberto Zurbano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA_qp12jRA0
La Plantación Invisible: turismo, raza, y colonialidad en La Habana, con Roberto Zurbano
https://vimeo.com/495239653
Podcast
Professor Devyn Spence Benson interviewed about her new book, AntiRacism in Cuba: The Unfinished Revolution, on April 21, 2017 https://nacla.org/news/2017/08/10/challenging-racism-revolutionary-raceless-cuba-audio
Benson, Devyn Spence
2012. “Owning the Revolution: Race, Revolution, and Politics from Havana to Miami, 1959–1963”
Journal of Transnational American Studies, 4 (2)
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5sb9d392
Radio Interview
Dr. Devyn Spence Benson interviewed by Walter Turner on “Africa Today” 94.1 KPFA, July 4, 2016
https://kpfa.org/player/
Ada Ferrer on Cuba: An American History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q4oazI9L90
Podcast
General Baker’s Political Awakening in Cuba
https://soundcloud.com/general-baker-institute/general-bakers-political-awakening-in-cuba?fbclid=IwAR37SkNyMXciSQReTWWtIe9_sLMFPNLbpdDOiAIACR-GvsXIlfA3ACeSXBE
Other Resources:
Video and Audio Resources
Detroit professor: Cuba’s experiences applicable to Detroit – Story | WJBK
http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/local-news/113727662-story
Fernandez, Liz Oliva
2023. Exclusive Interview with Colombian Vice President Francia Marquez, Havana, Cuba
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmLE3cAQdzY
Film:
Cuba: An African Odyssey.
https://youtu.be/ztqxOmDBjXk?si=_AsLfU3hsq48Cmoj
Video Interview:
Fidel and South African Liberation, ON the occasion of Fidel’s passing, an interview with Former South African President Thabo Mbeki
http://www.kzoo.edu/praxis/mbeki/
Black Cuban intellectuals, including: Gloria Rolando, Ana Morales, Zurbano, Tomas Robaina, and more.
http://www.okayafrica.com/news/afro-cuban-artists-intellectuals/
Double Consciousness The Paradox Of Race In Cuba: Roberto Zurbano
https://hgfilmfest.com/2022/10/18/double-consciousness-the-paradox-of-race-in-cuba/
No Longer a Racial Democracy: Critical Whiteness in Latin America and the Caribbean – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF-HzXbAyzo
Film
Gates, Henry Louis
2011. Black in Latin America, Cuba: The Next Revolution, Episode 2, PBS, April 26, 2011
Frances Peace Sullivan
2014.“ For the liberty of the nine boys in Scottsboro and against Yankee imperialist domination in Latin America”: Cuba’s Scottsboro defense campaign
History and Literature, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA,
Tony Wood
2022. Another Country: Cuban Communism and Black Self-Determination, 1932–1936 ( 1-30 pp )
Hispanic American Historical Review
Seidman J. Sara
2020. Angela Davis in Cuba as Symbol and Subject
Radical History Review
Issue 136 (January 2020)
Brock, Lisa
1994. Back to the Future: African-Americans and Cuba in the Time(s) of Race
Contributions in Black Studies:
A Journal of African and Afro-American Studies
Volume 12 Ethnicity, Gender, Culture, & Cuba (Special Section)
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cibs
https://afrocubaweb.com/brock.htm
1999.” Reflections on Cuba: History, Memory, Race and Solidarity “
Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, Volume 1, Number 2
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ccbh/souls/vol1no2.html
https://afrocubaweb.com/brock.htm
2019. Black Cuban Revolutionaries
Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, Volume 21, Number 4, October-December 2019
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/usou20/21/4?nav=tocList
2019. Editor’s Note: Black Cuban Revolutionaries, Socialism; and the Afterlife of Slavery
A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, 255-260
Volume 21, 2019 – Number 4 : Black Cuban Revolutionaries
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10999949.2020.1736941
2019. El Comandante Victor Dreke: The Making of a Cuban Revolutionary
A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society 261-287
Volume 21, 2019 – Number 4: Black Cuban Revolutionaries
Kozameh, Sara
2019.“ Radical, Black and Campesino in Revolutionary Cuba “
Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, Vol 32, Num 4, Black Cuban Revolutionaries
https://forhumanliberation.blogspot.com/2020/07/3391-black-radical-and-campesino-in.htm
2017. How Cuba Survived and Surprised in a Post-Soviet World
https://jacobin.com/2021/01/we-are-cuba-review-socialism-soviet-union
Manning, Marable ( Editor )
1999. Race and Revolution in Cuba
Souls: Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, Volume 1, Number 2, Spring 1999
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ccbh/souls/vol1no2.html
1984. Race and Democracy in Cuba, The Black Scholar, Vol 15, Num 3, Creating A Caribbean Culture (May-June 1984)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/41067811
Chrisman , Robert ( Editor )
1977. Report from Cuba, The Black Scholar, Volume 8, Number 8, Summer 1977
https://www.jstor.org/stable/i40047226
Brock, Lisa and Otis Cunningham
1991” Race and the Cuban Revolution: A Critique of Carlos Moore’s “Castro, the Blacks, and Africa”
Cuban Studies: University of Pittsburgh PressVol. 21, 1991, 171-185
https://afrocubaweb.com/brock.htm
Laforcade, de Geoffroy
2022. Critical Perspectives on Race and Revolution: Fugitive and Dissonant Afro/America through a Cuban Lens
Zanj: The Journal of Critical Global Studies Volume 4, Issue 1, November 10, 2022
https://www.scienceopen.com/collection/760e59e3-88be-4821-b7ec-7fa0a9b14fde
Laforcade, de Geoffroy and Devyn Springer
2019. The Red Barral Afrodescendiente: A Cuban Experiment in Black Community Empowerment, 339-346
Souls: A Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, Volume 21, Number 4, October-December 2019, Black Cuban Revolutionaries
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/usou20/21/4?nav=tocList
Guanche, Cesar Julio
2022. Two Republics in Conflict: The “War Race” of 1912 in Cuba
Zanj: The Journal of Critical Global Studies, Volume 4 , Issue 1, November 10, 2022
https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/zanjglobsoutstud.4.1.0001
Robaina, Fernandez Tomas
2022. For My Teacher, Walterio Carbonell
Zanj: The Journal of Critical Global Studies Volume 4, Issue 1, November 20, 2022
https://www.scienceopen.com/collection/760e59e3-88be-4821-b7ec-7fa0a9b14fde
Guerra, Romay Zuleica
2022. Groundings in Cuba: Echoes of Walter Rodney Today
Zanj: The Journal of Critical Global Studies
November 10, 2022
https://www.scienceopen.com/collection/760e59e3-88be-4821-b7ec-7fa0a9b14fde
Cole, Johnnetta B.
1977. Afro-American Solidarity With Cuba The Black Scholar, Journal of Black Studies and Research, Summer 1977, 8 (8-10), 73-80
1980. Race Toward Equality: The Impact of The Cuban Revolution on Racism
The Black Scholar, Journal of Black Studies and Research, Volume 11, 1980 – Issue 8: Black Anthropology, Part 2
https://doi.org/10.1080/00064246.1980.11760823
Cole, Johnnetta B. and Gail A. Reed
1986. Women In Cuba: Old Problems And New Ideas
Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development
Vol. 15. No. 3-4, Women in the Americas:
Relationships, Work and Power
(Fall/Winter, 1986) 321-353
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40553086
Gleibermann, Erik
2016. Cuban Educators Confront Country’s Racism Through Hip Hop, Rap – The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/08/where-hip-hop-fits-in-cubas-anti-racist-curriculum/493682/
Podcast
Matthew J. Pettway
Jul 7, 2020
Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection
Manzano, Plácido, and Afro-Latino Religion
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI 2019
https://megaphone.link/LIT5957011605
Video interview
Frank Guridy, Forging Diaspora: Afro-Cubans and African Americans in a World of Empire and Jim Crow
Afro-Cubans and African Americans in the Jim Crow Era | @NotEvenPast
Video interview:
New World Coming; Socialist Cuba, with Zuleica Romay, Director of the AfroAmerican Studies Program at Casa de las
Americas, Havana Cuba
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jJQBtPTPks
Video Interview:
New World Coming: Race in Cuba: Everything Within the Revolution with Esteban Morales, Havana Cuba
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQn_y5GjjG4
Podcast
Takkara K. Brunson
Oct 4, 2021
Black Women, Citizenship, and the Making of Modern Cuba
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA PRESS 2021
https://megaphone.link/NBN3603095041
https://newbooksnetwork.com/black-women-citizenship-and-the-making-of-modern-cuba
Podcast
Michelle Chase
Feb 3, 2016
Revolution within the Revolution
Women and Gender Politics in Cuba, 1952-1962
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS 2015
https://megaphone.link/LIT6810574916
https://newbooksnetwork.com/michelle-chase-revolution-within-the-revolution-women-and-gender-politics-in-cuba-1952-1962-unc-press-2015
Podcast
Historias 39 – Michelle Chase and Devyn Spence Benson on the Cuban Revolution
February 25, 2019
https://on.soundcloud.com/Eu2Ac
Podcast
Anne Garland Mahler
Dec 22, 2020
From the Tricontinental to the Global South
Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS 2018
https://newbooksnetwork.com/from-the-tricontinental-to-the-global-south
https://megaphone.link/LIT4775196035
Podcast
Paulina Laura Alberto, George Reid Andrews, and Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof
Jan 17, 2023
Voices of the Race
Black Newspapers in Latin America, 1870-1960
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 2022
https://newbooksnetwork.com/voices-of-the-race
https://megaphone.link/NBN9659856087
Podcast
Teishan A. Latner
Sep 4, 2018
Cuban Revolution in America
Havana and the Making of a United States Left, 1968–1992
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS 2018
https://megaphone.link/LIT4061503494
Podcast
Adrian Burgos, Jr.
Jan 26, 2012
Cuban Star
How One Negro-League Owner Changed the Face of Baseball
HILL AND WANG 2011
https://megaphone.link/LIT7754536971
Podcast
Sujatha Fernandes
Nov 18, 2020 The Cuban Hustle
Culture, Politics, Everyday Life
2020
https://megaphone.link/LIT5395710141
Podcast
Ada Ferrer
Feb 2, 2022
Cuba
An American History
SCRIBNER 2021
https://newbooksnetwork.com/cuba
https://megaphone.link/NBN2161491719
Podcast
Nancy Mirabal
Jun 27, 2019
Suspect Freedoms
The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1957
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS 2017
https://megaphone.link/LIT5963683537
WBEZ- Chicago Public Radio
Black in Two Americas
Aug 26, 2006, 2:00pm CT
Lisa Brock, professor of African history and Diaspora studies at Columbia College Chicago, has been researching and writing on African-American and Cuban relations since the early 1990s. Her book, Between Race and Empire:
African-Americans and Cubans Before the Cuban Revolution, explores historical ties between the Black freedom struggle in the U.S. and revolutionary movements among Afro-Cubans.
https://www.wbez.org/stories/black-in-two-americas/ed32f713-5f82-475e-8f24-6b45b4c4a06b
Online Roundtable: Devyn Spence Benson’s Antiracism in Cuba
https://www.aaihs.org/online-roundtable-devyn-spence-bensons-antiracism-in-cuba/
Interview with English edition editor Dr. Devyn Spence Benson
Afrocubanas
History, Thought, and Cultural Practices
Originally published in Cuba in Spanish and edited by Cuban historian Daisy Rubiera Castillo and playwright and theater critic Inés María Martiatu Terry, this ground-breaking edited collection is the first work of its kind.
https://global.uconn.edu/2020/09/28/afrocubanas-with-devyn-spence-benson-and-jane-gordon/
Mahler, Anne Garland
2018. From The Tricontinental To The Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity, Duke University Press
2021. The Tricontinental Racial Justice Movement
https://lefteast.org/the-tricontinental-racial-justice-movement/
2015. Todos los negros y todos los blancos y todos tomamos café”: Race and the Cuban Revolution in Nicolás Guillén
Landrián’s Coffea arábiga, Small Axe, Number 46, March 2015
Rubiera, Daisy Castillo
2000.Reyita: The Life of A Black Women in the Twentieth Century, Duke University Press
Bronfman, M. Alejandra
2004. Measures of Equality: Social Science, Citizenship, and Race in Cuba, 1902-1940, UNC Press
Morales, Dominguez Esteban
2019. The Place of Race in Cuba
https://africasacountry.com/2019/10/the-place-of-race-in-cuba
Gaiter, Colette
2018. Black Artists and Race in the U.S. and Cuba: Reflections after more than a half century of liberation and Civil
Rights
Scielo: UH no.285 La Habana ene.-jun. 2018
http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0253-92762018000100012
Radio Interview with Dr. Devyn Spence Benson author, AntiRacism in Cuba the Unfinished Revolution
“Not Blacks But Citizens” World Policy On Air — David Alpern, 13 May World Policy On Air, Ep. 67: · World Policy Institute
– iono.fm
https://iono.fm/e/288181
Gloria Rolando – Documentary Films
1991. Oggun: A Eternal Presence
1996. My Footsteps in Baraguá
2000. El Alacrán – Scorpion
2001. Roots of My Heart
2007. Cherished Island Memories
2010. 1912. Breaking the Silence ( Chapter 1 )
2011. 1912. Breaking the Silence ( Chapter 2 )
2012. 1912. Breaking the Silence ( Chapter 3 )
2014. Reembarque – Reshipment
2023. Sister’s of the Heart
https://afrocubaweb.com/gloriarolando/gloriarolando.htm
Documentary Film
AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange | Bakosó: Afrobeats of Cuba | Season 13 | Episode 1305 | PBS
How African Med Students Created A New Genre Of Cuban Music . First Came The Students and their Favorite Afropop
sounds, then came Bakoso
https://theoutline.com/post/1591/santiago-cuba-bakoso
NPR- WBEZ- Chicago
Tank And The Cubans: A Week In Havana
January 24, 2020, Felix Contreras
https://www.npr.org/2020/01/22/798584257/tank-and-the-cubans-a-week-in-havana
Cimafunk ft. The Soul Rebels and Tarriona “Tank” Ball – Caliente, Havana Cuba, March 6, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGa8g5dj5HM
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis: Live in Cuba, November 2015
Wynton Marsalis on CBS’ 60 Minutes (Part 1)
Havana, Cuba, January 2, 2011
https://wyntonmarsalis.org/videos/view/wynton-marsalis-on-cbs-60-minutes-part-1
Wynton Marsalis on CBS’ 60 Minutes (Part 2) Havana, Cuba, January 2, 2011
https://wyntonmarsalis.org/videos/view/wynton-marsalis-on-cbs-60-minutes-part-2/P8
60 Minutes Extra: Marsalis on Havana & New Orleans, January 8, 2011
https://wyntonmarsalis.org/videos/view/60-minutes-extra-marsalis-on-havana-new-orleans/P8
Chucho Valdes Looks Back At 45 Years of Irakere, Cuba50
https://cuba50.org/2018/04/23/chucho-valdes-looks-back-at-45-years-of-irakere/
Roy Hargrove’s Crisol Habana Won The 1998 Grammy Award For Best Latin Jazz Performance
http://marmadukebass.blogspot.com/2010/01/roy-hargrove-crisols-habana-1997.html
Cuba Today: Jazz Havana and Beyond
