TY - BOOK ID - 60530321 TI - Negro soy yo : hip hop and raced citizenship in neoliberal Cuba PY - 2016 SN - 9780822374954 0822374951 0822358859 0822359855 PB - Durham : Duke University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Hip-hop KW - Blacks KW - Political aspects KW - Social conditions. KW - Cuba KW - Race relations. KW - Negroes KW - Ethnology KW - Hip-hop culture KW - Hiphop KW - African American arts KW - Popular culture KW - Black persons KW - Black people KW - social conditions KW - music KW - political aspects KW - hip-hop KW - blacks KW - anthropology KW - cuba UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:60530321 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. Centring 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. ER -