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Author | : Marta Morena Vega |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2018-04-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781574781564 |
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When rock and roll was transforming American culture in the 1950s and '60s, East Harlem pulsed with the sounds of mambo and merengue. Instead of Elvis and the Beatles, Marta Moreno Vega grew up worshiping Celia Cruz, Mario Bauza, and Arsenio Rodriguez. Their music could be heard on every radio in El Barrio and from the main stage at the legendary Palladium, where every weekend working-class kids dressed in their sharpest suits and highest heels and became mambo kings and queens. Spanish Harlem was a vibrant and dynamic world, but it was also a place of constant change, where the traditions of Puerto Rican parents clashed with their children's American ideals. A precocious little girl with wildly curly hair, Marta was the baby of the family and the favorite of her elderly abuela, who lived in the apartment down the hall. Abuela Luisa was the spiritual center of the family, an espiritista who smoked cigars and honored the Afro-Caribbean deities who had always protected their family. But it was Marta's brother, Chachito, who taught her the latest dance steps and called her from the pay phone at the Palladium at night so she could listen, huddled beneath the bedcovers, to the seductive rhythms of Tito Puente and his orchestra. In this luminous and lively memoir, Marta Moreno Vega calls forth the spirit of Puerto Rican New York and the music, mysticism, and traditions of a remarkable and quintessentially American childhood.
Author | : Marta Moreno Vega |
Publisher | : Three Rivers Press (CA) |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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The author chronicles the immigrant experience through her own life, interweaving the poetry, music, and tradition of her family and home in Spanish Harlem during the 1950s.
Author | : Marta Moreno Vega |
Publisher | : Arte Publico Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2012-04-30 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 155885746X |
Download Women Warriors of the Afro-Latina Diaspora Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Hers is one of eleven essays and four poems included in this volume in which Latina women of African descent share their stories. The authors included are from all over Latin America-Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Panama, Puerto Rico, Venezuela-and the United States. They write about the African diaspora and issues such as colonialism, oppression and disenfranchisement. Diva Moreira, a Brazilian, writes that she experienced racism and humiliation at a very young age. The worst experience, she remembers, was her mother's bosses' conviction that Diva didn't need to go to school after the fourth grade, "because blacks don't need to study more than that."
Author | : Theresa Delgadillo |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2024-09-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0472904574 |
Download Geographies of Relation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Geographies of Relation offers a new lens for examining diaspora and borderlands texts and performances that considers the inseparability of race, ethnicity, and gender in imagining and enacting social change. Theresa Delgadillo crosses interdisciplinary and canonical borders to investigate the interrelationships of African-descended Latinx and mestizx peoples through an analysis of Latin American, Latinx, and African American literature, film, and performance. Not only does Delgadillo offer a rare extended analysis of Black Latinidades in Chicanx literature and theory, but she also considers over a century’s worth of literary, cinematic, and performative texts to support her argument about the significance of these cultural sites and overlaps. Chapters illuminate the significance of Toña La Negra in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, reconsider feminist theorist Gloria Anzaldúa’s work in revising exclusionary Latin American ideologies of mestizaje, delve into the racial and gender frameworks Sandra Cisneros attempts to rewrite, unpack encounters between African Americans and Black Puerto Ricans in texts by James Baldwin and Marta Moreno Vega, explore the African diaspora in colonial and contemporary Peru through Daniel Alarcón’s literature and the documentary Soy Andina, and revisit the centrality of Black power in ending colonialism in Cuban narratives. Geographies of Relation demonstrates the long histories of networks and exchanges across the Americas as well as the interrelationships among Indigenous, Black, African American, mestizx, Chicanx, and Latinx peoples. It offers a compelling argument that geographies of relation are as significant as national frameworks in structuring cultural formation and change in this hemisphere.
Author | : Yosef Ben-Jochannan |
Publisher | : Black Classic Press |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780933121263 |
Download Black Man of the Nile and His Family Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In a masterful and unique manner, Dr. Ben uses Black Man of the Nile to challenge and expose "Europeanized" African history. Order Black Man of the Nile here.
Author | : Reginald F. Lewis |
Publisher | : Black Classic Press |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2005-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781574780369 |
Download Why Should White Guys Have All the Fun? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The inspiring story of Reginald Lewis: lawyer, Wall Street wizard, philanthropist--and the wealthiest black man in American history. Based on Lewis's unfinished autobiography, along with scores of interviews with family, friends, and colleagues, this book cuts through the myth and hype to reveal the man behind the legend.
Author | : Yosef Ben-Jochannan |
Publisher | : Black Classic Press |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781574780222 |
Download Cultural Genocide in the Black and African Studies Curriculum Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
As Black and African Studies programs emerged in the early 1970's, the question of who has the right and responsibility to determine course content and curriculum also emerged. In 1972, Dr. Ben's critique on this subject was published as Cultural Genocide in The Black and African Studies Curriculum. It has been republished several times since then and its topic has remained timely and unresolved.
Author | : Katherine Dunham |
Publisher | : Doubleday |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2012-05-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307819841 |
Download Island Possessed Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Just as surely as Haiti is "possessed" by the gods and spirits of vaudun (voodoo), the island "possessed" Katherine Dunham when she first went there in 1936 to study dance and ritual. In this book, Dunham reveals how her anthropological research, her work in dance, and her fascination for the people and cults of Haiti worked their spell, catapulting her into experiences that she was often lucky to survive. Here Dunham tells how the island came to be possessed by the demons of voodoo and other cults imported from various parts of Africa, as well as by the deep class divisions, particularly between blacks and mulattos, and the political hatred still very much in evidence today. Full of the flare and suspense of immersion in a strange and enchanting culture, Island Possessed is also a pioneering work in the anthropology of dance and a fascinating document on Haitian politics and voodoo.
Author | : Jane Yolen |
Publisher | : Magination Press |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781433836848 |
Download When Nana Dances Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Nana shimmies, bops, taps, and twirls her way to a shindig with her grandchildren, who love dancing with their grandmother.
Author | : Marta Moreno Vega |
Publisher | : One World |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2009-07-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0307567109 |
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Long cloaked in protective secrecy, demonized by Western society, and distorted by Hollywood, Santería is at last emerging from the shadows with an estimated 75 million orisha followers worldwide. In The Altar of My Soul, Marta Moreno Vega recounts the compelling true story of her journey from ignorance and skepticism to initiation as a Yoruba priestess in the Santería religion. This unforgettable spiritual memoir reveals the long-hidden roots and traditions of a centuries-old faith that originated on the shores of West Africa. As an Afro-Puerto Rican child in the New York barrio, Marta paid little heed to the storefront botanicas full of spiritual paraphernalia or to the Catholic saints with foreign names: Yemayá, Ellegua, Shangó. As an adult, in search of a religion that would reflect her racial and cultural heritage, Marta was led to the Way of the Saints. She came to know Santería intimately through its prayers and rituals, drumming and dancing, trances and divination that spark sacred healing energy for family, spiritual growth, and service to others. Written by one who is a professor and a santera priestess, The Altar of My Soul lays before us an electrifying and inspiring faith–one passed down from generation to generation that vitalizes the sacred energy necessary to build a family, a community, and a strong, loving society.