When The Spirits Dance Mambo
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When The Spirits Dance Mambo
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Author : Marta Morena Vega
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-04-15
When The Spirits Dance Mambo written by Marta Morena Vega and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
When The Spirits Dance Mambo
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Author : Marta Moreno Vega
language : en
Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA)
Release Date : 2004
When The Spirits Dance Mambo written by Marta Moreno Vega and has been published by Three Rivers Press (CA) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
Women Warriors Of The Afro Latina Diaspora
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Author : Marta Moreno Vega
language : en
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Release Date : 2012-04-30
Women Warriors Of The Afro Latina Diaspora written by Marta Moreno Vega and has been published by Arte Publico Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-30 with Literary Collections categories.
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."
Invisibility And Influence
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Author : Regina Marie Mills
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2024-06-04
Invisibility And Influence written by Regina Marie Mills and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
A rich literary study of AfroLatinx life writing, this book traces how AfroLatinxs have challenged their erasure in the United States and Latin America over the last century. Invisibility and Influence demonstrates how a century of AfroLatinx writers in the United States shaped life writing, including memoir, collective autobiography, and other formats, through depictions of a wide range of “Afro-Latinidades.” Using a woman-of-color feminist approach, Regina Marie Mills examines the work of writers and creators often excluded from Latinx literary criticism. She explores the tensions writers experienced in being viewed by others as only either Latinx or Black, rather than as part of their own distinctive communities. Beginning with Arturo (Arthur) Schomburg, who contributed to wider conversations about autobiographical technique, Invisibility and Influence examines a breadth of writers, including Jesús Colón; members of the Young Lords; Piri Thomas; Lukumi santera and scholar Marta Moreno Vega; and Black Mexican American poet Ariana Brown. Mills traces how these writers confront the distorted visions of AfroLatinxs in the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean, and how they created and expressed AfroLatinx spirituality, politics, and self-identity, often amidst violence. Mapping how AfroLatinx writers create their own literary history, Mills reveals how AfroLatinx life writing shapes and complicates discourses on race and colorism in the Western Hemisphere.
Transnational Latina Narratives In The Twenty First Century
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Author : Juanita Heredia
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2009-08-03
Transnational Latina Narratives In The Twenty First Century written by Juanita Heredia and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
Transnational Latina Narratives is the first critical study of its kind to examine twenty-first-century Latina narratives by female authors of diverse Latin American heritages based in the U.S. Heredia s comparative perspective on gender, race and migrations between Latin America and the U.S. demonstrates the changing national landscape that needs to accommodate an ever-growing Latino/a presence. This book draws on the work of Denise Chávez, Sandra Cisneros, Marta Moreno Vega, Angie Cruz, and Marie Arana, as well as a diverse blend of popular culture. Heredia s thought-provoking insights seek to empower the representation of women who are transnational ambassadors in modern trans-American literature.
Black Women S Literature Of The Americas
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Author : Tonia Leigh Wind
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-11-25
Black Women S Literature Of The Americas written by Tonia Leigh Wind and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
Drawing on a range of historical and literary texts, this book examines how Black women under the yoke of slavery negotiated their sense of belonging and spirituality from a liminal position, stuck between a new life in the Americas, and their connections to their African ancestral roots and a wider diasporic community. The book investigates how Black women in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, the United States, and Brazil turned to their spiritual beliefs as a tool of resilience and resistance. These “griots” and “goddesses” are forced to negotiate complex issues such as race, gender, identity, maternity, sexuality, and belonging, from a liminal position that looks to both settle roots in a foreign land, and stay connected to ancestors and the Sacred. As these Black female protagonists turn to (re)memory and ancestral knowledge to map their connection with the Divine, they become mediators of worlds, and hybrid griots surpassing temporal and geographical boundaries. With important reflections on Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa’s Daughters of the Stone, and Ana Maria Gonçalves’s Um Defeito de Cor, amongst other texts, this book will be of interest to advanced students and researchers of comparative literature, religious studies, gender studies, and African diaspora studies.
The Afro Latino Memoir
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Author : Trent Masiki
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2023-08-29
The Afro Latino Memoir written by Trent Masiki and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
Despite their literary and cultural significance, Afro-Latino memoirs have been marginalized in both Latino and African American studies. Trent Masiki remedies this problem by bringing critical attention to the understudied African American influences in Afro-Latino memoirs published after the advent of the Black Arts movement. Masiki argues that these memoirs expand on the meaning of racial identity for both Latinos and African Americans. Using interpretive strategies and historical methods from literary and cultural studies, Masiki shows how Afro-Latino memoir writers often turn to the African American experience as a model for articulating their Afro-Latinidad. African American literary production, expressive culture, political ideology, and religiosity shaped Afro-Latino subjectivity more profoundly than typically imagined between the post-war and post-soul eras. Masiki recovers this neglected history by exploring how and why Black nationalism shaped Afro-Latinidad in the United States. This book opens the border between the canons of Latino and African American literature, encouraging greater intercultural solidarities between Latinos and African Americans in the era of Black Lives Matter.
Salsa For People Who Probably Shouldn T
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Author : Matt Rendell
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-09-29
Salsa For People Who Probably Shouldn T written by Matt Rendell and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-29 with Performing Arts categories.
Every week for much of the year, millions of Brits view and vote on Strictly Come Dancing, with the salsa being one of the most popular dances. Dark, enticing Afro-Caribbean rhythms; moving bodies gently interlaced, responding to the music: at first sight, salsa dancing seems to recover something our regimented British lives suppress. For not much more than a fiver, salsa can reconnect us with our bodies. So we seem to think: with perhaps a million Britons taking a class every week, salsa is statistically our national dance. Matt Rendell learned salsa the British way, as an adult, rote-learning figures and routines. His Colombian wife, Vivi, acquired salsa in early childhood from her parents and grandparents; the dance made her part of her community. A love story about two people from cultures at sometimes comical cross-purposes, Salsa for People Who Probably Shouldn't explores how the world's most popular dance went global, how it reached the UK and whether the saucy, salacious salsa of our national fantasy life is really as exotic as we like to think.
Transnational Cinematic And Popular Music Icons
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Author : Aaron Lefkovitz
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2017-09-08
Transnational Cinematic And Popular Music Icons written by Aaron Lefkovitz and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-08 with Social Science categories.
This book explores the films and popular music of Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, and Queen Latifah,connecting each performer to female black-transnational histories and nonwhite female performers’ representational struggles.
When Nana Dances
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Author : Jane Yolen
language : en
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Release Date : 2021-11-02
When Nana Dances written by Jane Yolen and has been published by American Psychological Association this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-02 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
This fun story is filled with the movement, energy, and laughter that comes when kids dance with their grandparents. This lively story will leap into the hearts of kids and their grandparents alike as it celebrates intergenerational relationships in rhyming text. Nana can make any object a dancing partner. An umbrella, a broom, even a rake! Both onstage and off, she can shimmy, she can mambo, and do the bunny hop. She's won prizes and can dance to grandpa's music or to her own beat, but nothing is more special than when grandma dances with her grandchildren.