{"product_id":"unbecoming-blackness-9780814765470","title":"Unbecoming Blackness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2014 Runner-Up, MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eUnbecoming Blackness\u003c\/i\u003e, Antonio López uncovers an important,  otherwise unrecognized century-long archive of literature and  performance that reveals Cuban America as a space of overlapping Cuban  and African diasporic experiences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e López shows how Afro-Cuban writers and performers in the U.S. align Cuban  black and mulatto identities, often subsumed in the mixed-race and  postracial Cuban national imaginaries, with the material and symbolic  blackness of African Americans and other Afro-Latinas\/os. In the works  of Alberto O’Farrill, Eusebia Cosme, Rómulo Lachatañeré, and others,  Afro-Cubanness articulates the African diasporic experience in ways that  deprive negro and mulatto configurations of an exclusive link with Cuban  nationalism. Instead, what is invoked is an “unbecoming” relationship  between Afro-Cubans in the U.S and their domestic black counterparts.  The transformations in Cuban racial identity across the hemisphere,  represented powerfully in the literary and performance cultures of  Afro-Cubans in the U.S., provide the fullest account of a transnational  Cuba, one in which the Cuban American emerges as Afro-Cuban-American,  and the Latino as Afro-Latino.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antonio Lopez","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48273434083579,"sku":"9780814765470","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_ca1f0886-a386-461b-8af9-426c8e672e69.jpg?v=1777695383","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/unbecoming-blackness-9780814765470","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}