Christina D Abreu
Biographic Data
| ID | 700644 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christina D Abreu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christina D |
| FAMILY NAME | Abreu |
| SIGNATURE | ABREU C D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northern Illinois University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Constructing Cuban America
Ybor City
Journal Article Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South. By Sarah McNamara Get access Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South Sarah McNamara ( Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023. 266 pp. $99.00). Christina D Abreu Christina D Abreu Northern Illinois University E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, shad090, https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shad090 Pu…
Reproducing the "white public space" in anthropology faculty searches
Más que una reina
Afro-Cuban women singers were not simply exotic sidepieces or gimmicky accessories accompanying the performances of the male singers and bandleaders dominating the Latin popular music landscape of the first three decades of the second half of the twentieth century. The personal life stories and professional careers of Graciela Pérez Grillo, Celia Cruz, and Lupe Victoria Yolí exemplify the various ways in which Cuban women of color crafted their m…
Suspect Freedoms
Saunders, Tanya L
Anthropos , Seite 356 - 357
Tyina L. Steptoe. Houston Bound
In Houston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City, Tyina L. Steptoe beautifully details the social and sonic history of race and migration in Houston between the 1920s and the 1960s. Beginning in the early 1920s, French-speaking Creoles of color from southwestern Louisiana and (mostly) Spanish-speaking ethnic Mexicans arrived in Houston, Texas, where they encountered English-speaking Anglos and black Texans. Houston was a city marked by the …
Antiracism in Cuba
Only hours after Cuba's longtime revolutionary leader Fidel Castro died late on November 25, 2016, media reports in the United States began to reflect the polarization that has come to characterize almost everything about the island. Some accounts mourned Castro's passing and celebrated his achievements in education and health care; others condemned the bearded leader and his record of human rights violations and suppression of dissent. Among tho…
Rhythms of Race
Among the nearly 90,000 Cubans who settled in New York City and Miami in the 1940s and 1950s were numerous musicians and entertainers, black and white, who did more than fill dance halls with the rhythms of the rumba, mambo, and cha cha chá. Presenting a history of music and race in midcentury America, this book argues that these musicians, through their work in music festivals, nightclubs, social clubs, and television and film productions, playe…
The Story of Benny “Kid” Paret
This article examines the personal life history and professional boxing career of Afro-Cuban boxer Benny “Kid” Paret between 1959 and 1962. Paret died nine days after suffering a brutal beating in the ring at the hands of Emile Griffith, and this article focuses on the public discourse surrounding his death in the context of strained U.S.-Cuba relations, increased Cuban migration to the United States after 1959, and race and ethnic identity forma…
Creolizing Contradance in the Caribbean
Peter Manuel and the contributors to this volume deliver a much-needed study of the contradance and quadrille traditions of the Spanish-, French-, and English-speaking Caribbean islands. Rather than focus on individual islands or twentieth-century music and dance genres, Creolizing Contradance offers a panregional, synthetic examination of contradance and quadrille music and dance forms as they developed in the Caribbean in the nineteenth century…
Caribbean Culture
The 22 essays collected in Caribbean Culture are representative of the quality of the intellectual dialogue that took place at the Second Conference on Caribbean Culture held in January 2002. Scholars and critics gathered at the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies to honor the life and writings of Caribbean poet, historian, and cultural critic Kamau Brathwaite. The volume’s introductory essay offers a brief but compelling overview of…
Celebrity, "Crossover," and Cubanidad
When Cuban-born Celia Cruz arrived in New York City in 1962, she faced audiences that dismissed her as irrelevant to their current musical and cultural preferences. The boom in ethnic pride of the 1970s, though, allowed Celia to emerge as the only female superstar of salsa, the "new" sound of Latin music. From 1971 to 2003, Celia developed into a dynamic entertainer representative of the commercial success of salsa music, the musical, linguistic,…
Reproducing the "white public space" in anthropology faculty searches
Antiracism in Cuba
Only hours after Cuba's longtime revolutionary leader Fidel Castro died late on November 25, 2016, media reports in the United States began to reflect the polarization that has come to characterize almost everything about the island. Some accounts mourned Castro's passing and celebrated his achievements in education and health care; others condemned the bearded leader and his record of human rights violations and suppression of dissent. Among tho…
Celebrity, "Crossover," and Cubanidad
When Cuban-born Celia Cruz arrived in New York City in 1962, she faced audiences that dismissed her as irrelevant to their current musical and cultural preferences. The boom in ethnic pride of the 1970s, though, allowed Celia to emerge as the only female superstar of salsa, the "new" sound of Latin music. From 1971 to 2003, Celia developed into a dynamic entertainer representative of the commercial success of salsa music, the musical, linguistic,…
The Story of Benny “Kid” Paret
This article examines the personal life history and professional boxing career of Afro-Cuban boxer Benny “Kid” Paret between 1959 and 1962. Paret died nine days after suffering a brutal beating in the ring at the hands of Emile Griffith, and this article focuses on the public discourse surrounding his death in the context of strained U.S.-Cuba relations, increased Cuban migration to the United States after 1959, and race and ethnic identity forma…
Celebrity, "Crossover," and Cubanidad
When Cuban-born Celia Cruz arrived in New York City in 1962, she faced audiences that dismissed her as irrelevant to their current musical and cultural preferences. The boom in ethnic pride of the 1970s, though, allowed Celia to emerge as the only female superstar of salsa, the "new" sound of Latin music. From 1971 to 2003, Celia developed into a dynamic entertainer representative of the commercial success of salsa music, the musical, linguistic,…
Caribbean Culture
The 22 essays collected in Caribbean Culture are representative of the quality of the intellectual dialogue that took place at the Second Conference on Caribbean Culture held in January 2002. Scholars and critics gathered at the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies to honor the life and writings of Caribbean poet, historian, and cultural critic Kamau Brathwaite. The volume’s introductory essay offers a brief but compelling overview of…
The Story of Benny “Kid” Paret
This article examines the personal life history and professional boxing career of Afro-Cuban boxer Benny “Kid” Paret between 1959 and 1962. Paret died nine days after suffering a brutal beating in the ring at the hands of Emile Griffith, and this article focuses on the public discourse surrounding his death in the context of strained U.S.-Cuba relations, increased Cuban migration to the United States after 1959, and race and ethnic identity forma…
Creolizing Contradance in the Caribbean
Peter Manuel and the contributors to this volume deliver a much-needed study of the contradance and quadrille traditions of the Spanish-, French-, and English-speaking Caribbean islands. Rather than focus on individual islands or twentieth-century music and dance genres, Creolizing Contradance offers a panregional, synthetic examination of contradance and quadrille music and dance forms as they developed in the Caribbean in the nineteenth century…
Rhythms of Race
Among the nearly 90,000 Cubans who settled in New York City and Miami in the 1940s and 1950s were numerous musicians and entertainers, black and white, who did more than fill dance halls with the rhythms of the rumba, mambo, and cha cha chá. Presenting a history of music and race in midcentury America, this book argues that these musicians, through their work in music festivals, nightclubs, social clubs, and television and film productions, playe…
Saunders, Tanya L
Anthropos , Seite 356 - 357
Tyina L. Steptoe. Houston Bound
In Houston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City, Tyina L. Steptoe beautifully details the social and sonic history of race and migration in Houston between the 1920s and the 1960s. Beginning in the early 1920s, French-speaking Creoles of color from southwestern Louisiana and (mostly) Spanish-speaking ethnic Mexicans arrived in Houston, Texas, where they encountered English-speaking Anglos and black Texans. Houston was a city marked by the …
Antiracism in Cuba
Only hours after Cuba's longtime revolutionary leader Fidel Castro died late on November 25, 2016, media reports in the United States began to reflect the polarization that has come to characterize almost everything about the island. Some accounts mourned Castro's passing and celebrated his achievements in education and health care; others condemned the bearded leader and his record of human rights violations and suppression of dissent. Among tho…
Más que una reina
Afro-Cuban women singers were not simply exotic sidepieces or gimmicky accessories accompanying the performances of the male singers and bandleaders dominating the Latin popular music landscape of the first three decades of the second half of the twentieth century. The personal life stories and professional careers of Graciela Pérez Grillo, Celia Cruz, and Lupe Victoria Yolí exemplify the various ways in which Cuban women of color crafted their m…
Suspect Freedoms
Reproducing the "white public space" in anthropology faculty searches
Ybor City
Journal Article Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South. By Sarah McNamara Get access Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South Sarah McNamara ( Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023. 266 pp. $99.00). Christina D Abreu Christina D Abreu Northern Illinois University E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, shad090, https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shad090 Pu…
Constructing Cuban America
History (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Art (8 works) · Cuban History and Society (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works)