Negro Soy Yo: Hip Hop and Raced Citizenship in Neoliberal Cuba

Marc D. Perry

ISBN 10: 0822358859 / ISBN 13: 9780822358855

Published by Duke University Press, 2015

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In Negro Soy Yo Marc D. Perry explores how Cuban raperos (black-identified rappers) in Havana craft notions of black Cuban identity and racial citizenship in the face of continuing racism and marginalization during an era in which the Cuban economy, society, and nationhood have been under constant flux. Series: Refiguring American Music. Num Pages: 296 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJC; AVGR; HBJK; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 409. . 2015. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Negro Soy Yo: Hip Hop and Raced Citizenship in Neoliberal Cuba
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822358859
• ISBN 13: 9780822358855
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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. 

About the Author

Marc D. Perry is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African and African Diaspora Studies at Tulane University.