To Whom It Belongs
The Aftermaths of Afrocubanismo and the Power over Lo Negro in Cuban Arts, 1938–1958
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18945006 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cary Aileen García Yero (Office of International Affairs, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-18 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Research Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-8791 • E-ISSN: 1542-4278 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/lar.2022.1 |
| OpenAlex | W4281945548 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 29 |
This article explores the impact of Afrocubanismo on the development of Cuba’s arts during the 1940s and 1950s. The article follows the discursive output of artists, intellectuals, and cultural policymakers of different racial backgrounds over the deployment of lo negro to construct cubanidad . It argues that, if the 1920s and 1930s experienced a movement towards the construction of a homogeneous mestizo Cuba, the following decades reveal an effort by some artists to desyncretize lo cubano . While some intellectuals constructed notions of authenticity that circumscribed black art to black artists, many white Cuban artists in turn embraced elite Hispanic heritage as their main creative language while valorizing some Afro-Cuban artists’ recreations of lo negro . The article also demonstrates that the scholarly debates about cultural appropriation in recent decades have a long history within the Afro-Cuban community. It shows how Afro-Cuban artists and intellectuals pioneered arguments about the exploitative use of lo negro to make national art and the central role of culture in shaping racial inequality
Aesthetics · Appropriation · Art · Cultural policy · Elite · Humanities · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · Subordination (linguistics) · The arts · Visual arts · White (mutation) · Cuban History and Society · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Philosophy · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America
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Mulata Nation
Forging Diaspora
Rise and Fall of the Cosmic Race
Nationalizing Blackness
Terms of Inclusion
Blazing Cane
Listening for Africa
Uniting blacks in a raceless nation
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Lydia Cabrera and the Construction of Afro-Cuban Cultural Identity
Fighting Colonialism with Hegemonic Culture
Being and Blackness in Latin America
The Specter of Races
A Nation for All
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Remembering Africa, Inventing Uruguay
Broadcasting Modernity
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |