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Miguel Arnedo-Gómez is a senior lecturer in the Spanish and Latin American Studies Program at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and the author of Writing Rumba: The Afrocubanista Movement in Poetry (2006).
A Note on Translations
Acknowledgments
Introduction:
Chapter One: Afro-Cuban Reformulations of Afrocubanismo and Mestizaje in 1930s Cuba
Chapter Two: Racism and the Myth of Racial Equality in Nicolás Guillén’s 1930s Essays on Racial Inequality
Chapter Three: Guillén’s Afro-Cuban Other and Black Intraracial Discrimination in Motivos de son
Chapter Four: The Search for a Mulatto Identity in Motivos de son, “Balada de los dos abuelos,” “El apellido,” and “Son número 6”
Chapter Five: Renegrifying Sóngoro Cosongo and “La canción del bongó”
Chapter Six: Guillén’s Black Masculinist Visions of the Mulata’s Cross-Racial Proclivities
Conclusion: Reaffirming the Afro-Cuban Subject, from Mestizaje to Heterogeneity
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Uniting Blacks in a Raceless Nation is a fascinating study of the life and art of the national poet of a nation we considered an enemy until recently. This well-researched work sheds light on many unknown dimensions of his life, poetry, and struggle. Equally, it is a study of the black rights movement in Cuba and shows how advanced it was as compared to the United States. It is the best biography of Guillén. It is a required reading for black rights activists and scholars as well as poets and students of poetry. — The Washington Book Review
Uniting Blacks in a Raceless Nation is a fascinating study of the life and art of the national poet of a nation we considered an enemy until recently. This well-researched work sheds light on many unknown dimensions of his life, poetry, and struggle. Equally, it is a study of the black rights movement in Cuba and shows how advanced it was as compared to the United States. It is the best biography of Guillén. It is a required reading for black rights activists and scholars as well as poets and students of poetry.— The Washington Book Review
After reading this book, I must commend the author for his serious investigations into the development of anxiety in many Caribbean thinkers who reflect on the consequences of the meeting of several races in the Caribbean basin. Further, this book is an excellent contribution to many other books about Afro-Caribbean literature, and it is suitable for graduate and undergraduate students, as well as for academics who work on the complex theme of Cuban identity. [Translated from original Spanish]
— Revista Iberoamericana