Unbecoming Blackness: The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America IL and new Kings emerge

and new Kings emerge

Journalist and adventurer William Seabrook introduced the concept of the walking dead ― zombies ― to the West with his illustrated travelogue

found his way to a startling and true depiction of black subjects

and Maddie begins to fall for him

this book unravels the synergies of history

Unbecoming Blackness: The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America IL and new Kings emerge2014 Runner Up, MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies In Unbecoming Blackness, Antonio Lpez uncovers an important, otherwise unrecognized century long archive of literature and performance that reveals Cuban America as a space of overlapping Cuban and African diasporic experiences. Lpez shows how Afro Cuban writers and performers in the U. S. align Cuban black and mulatto identities, often