TY  - BOOK
AU  - Perry, Marc D.
AB  - In Negro Soy Yo Marc D. Perry explores Cuba’s hip hop movement as a window into the racial complexities of the island’s ongoing transition from revolutionary socialism toward free-market capitalism. Centering on the music and lives of black-identified raperos (rappers), Perry examines the ways 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. Situating hip hop within a long history of Cuban racial politics, Perry discusses the artistic and cultural exchanges between raperos and North American rappers and activists, and their relationships with older Afro-Cuban intellectuals and African American political exiles. He also examines critiques of Cuban patriarchy by female raperos, the competing rise of reggaetón, as well as state efforts to incorporate hip hop into its cultural institutions. At this pivotal moment of Cuban-U.S. relations, Perry's analysis illuminates the evolving dynamics of race, agency, and neoliberal transformation amid a Cuba in historic flux. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.
DO  - 10.1353/book.64131
ID  - OAPEN ID: 650014
ID  - OAPEN ID: 604610
KW  - social conditions
KW  - music
KW  - political aspects
KW  - hip-hop
KW  - blacks
KW  - anthropology
KW  - cuba
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/00d55a36-2262-4742-ac5f-df3eaffe46cb/604610.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/37509
PB  - Duke University Press
PP  - Durham
PY  - 2016
SN  - 9780822374954
SN  - 9780822359852
TI  - Negro Soy Yonull
ER  - 
