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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Editorial Note | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Historical Background before 1900 | |
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| The Earliest Africans in North America | |
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| Black Pioneers: The Spanish-Speaking Afro-Americans of the Southwest | |
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| Slave and Free Women of Color in the Spanish Ports of New Orleans, Mobile, and Pensacola | |
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| Afro-Cubans in Tampa | |
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| Excerpt from Pulling the Muse from the Drum | |
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| Arturo Alfonso Schomburg | |
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| Excerpt from �Racial Integrity: A Plea for the Establishment of a Chair of Negro History in Our Schools and Colleges,� | |
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| The World of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg | |
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| Invoking Arturo Schomburg's Legacy in Philadelphia | |
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| Afro-Latin@s on the Color Line | |
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| Black Cuban, Black American | |
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| A Puerto Rican in New York and Other Sketches | |
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| Melba Alvarado, El Club Cubano Inter-Americano, and the Creation of Afro-Cubanidades in New York City | |
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| An Uneven Playing Field: Afro-Latinos in Major League Baseball | |
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| Changing Identities: An Afro-Latin@ Family Portrait | |
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| iEso era tremendo! An Afro-Cuban Musician Remembers | |
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| Roots of Salsa: Afro-Latin@ Popular Music | |
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| From �Indianola� to ��o Col��: The Strange Career of the Afro-Puerto Rican Musician | |
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| Excerpt from cu/bop | |
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| Bauz�a-Gillespie-Latin/Jazz:Difference, Modernity, and the Black Caribbean | |
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| Contesting that Damned Mambo: Arsenio Rodr�guez and the People of El Barrio and the Bronx in the 1950s | |
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| Boogaloo and Latin Soul | |
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| Excerpt from the salsa of bethesda fountain | |
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| Black Latin@ Sixties | |
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| Hair Conking; Buy Black | |
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| Dominican Garveyite in Harlem | |
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| Down These Mean Streets | |
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| African Things | |
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| Black Notes and �You Do Something to Me,� | |
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| Before People Called Me a Spic, They Called Me a Nigger | |
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| Excerpt from J�baro, My Pretty Nigger | |
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| The Yoruba Orisha Tradition Comes to New York City | |
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| Reflections and Lived Experiences of Afro-Latin@ Religiosity | |
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| Discovering Myself: Un Testimonio | |
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| Excerpt from Dominicanish | |
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| Afro-Latinas | |
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| The Black Puerto Rican Woman in Contemporary American Society | |
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| Something Latino Was Up with Us | |
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| Excerpt from Poem for My Grifa-Rican Sistah, or Broken Ends Broken Promises | |
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| Latinegras: Desired Women-Undesirable Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, and Wives | |
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| Letter to a Friend | |
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| Uncovering Mirrors: Afro-Latina Lesbian Subjects | |
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| The Black Bellybutton of a Bongo | |
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| Public Images and (Mis)Representations | |
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| Notes on Eusebia Cosme and Juano Hern�ndez | |
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| Desde el Mero Medio: Race Discrimination within the Latin@ Community | |
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| Displaying Identity: Dominicans in the Black Mosaic of Washington, D.C. | |
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| Bringing the Soul: Afros, Black Empowerment, and Lucecita Ben�tez | |
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| Can BET Make You Black? Remixing and Reshaping Latin@ on Black Entertainment Television | |
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| The Afro-Latino Connection: Can this group be the bridge to a broadbased Black-Hispanic alliance? | |
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| Afro-Latin@s in the Hip Hop Zone | |
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| Ghettocentricity, Blackness, and Pan-Latinidad | |
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| Chicano Rap Roots: Afro-Mexico and Black-Brown Cultural Exchange | |
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| The Rise and Fall of Reggaeton: From Daddy Yankee to Tego Calder�n and Beyond | |
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| Do Pl�tanos Go wit' Collard Greens? | |
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| Divas Don't Yield | |
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| Living Afro-Latinidades | |
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| An Afro-Latina's Quest for Inclusion | |
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| Retracing Migration: From Saman� to New York and Back Again | |
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| Negotiating among Invisibilities: Tales of Afro-Latinidades in the United States | |
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| We Are Black Too: Experiences of a Honduran Garifuna | |
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| Profile of an Afro-Latina: Black, Mexican, Both | |
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| Enrique Patterson: Black Cuban Intellectual in Cuban Miami | |
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| Reflections about Race by a Negrito Acomplejao | |
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| Divisible Blackness: Reflections on Heterogeneity and Racial Identity | |
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| Nigger-Reecan Blues | |
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| Afro-Latin@s: Present and Future Tenses | |
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| How Race Counts for Hispanic Americans | |
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| Bleach in the Rainbow: Latino Ethnicity and Preference for Whiteness | |
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| Brown Like Me? | |
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| An Oral history project in western Puerto Rico Against the Myth of Racial Harmony in Puerto Rico | |
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| Mexican Ways, African Roots | |
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| Afro-Latin@s and the Latin@ Workplace | |
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| Racial Politics in Multiethnic America: Black and Latin@ Identities and Coalitions | |
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| Afro-Latinism in United States Society: A Commentary | |
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| Sources and Permissions | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Index | |